Thanks for the reply. Are there any plans to add any of the features presented in Pascal Serrarens's paper? Any plans to bring the Concurrent back to Concurrent CLEAN?
I really enjoy the CLEAN development environment and the language in general. I feel that adding this kind of concurrent/parallel API would really make people stand up and take notice of CLEAN. Cheers, Parnell > -----Original Message----- > From: John van Groningen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:54 AM > To: Parnell Flynn > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [clean-list] Concurrent/parallel threads in CLEAN > > Parnell Flynn wrote: > >I have a question about the state of Concurrent Clean. > > > >In the CleanLangRep.2.1 it states that since CLEAN 2.0 the support for > >concurrent evaluations ({P} and {I} annotations has been removed. > > > >I have been reading the "Explicit Message Passing for Concurrent Clean" > >paper by Pascal R. Serrarens and I was wondering if any of the concepts > >presented in that paper have been added to CLEAN. Specifically > >SChannels and RChannels and ThreadEnv (newIntThread, newParThread etc). > > No, this has not been added. > > >If these have not been added to CLEAN how do I create and use multiple > >threads on multiple processors? I have looked through the libraries but > >I have not found what I am looking for yet. > > Unfortunately, the only way to do this at the moment is to use the API of > the operating system to start several applications and use for example > messages or shared memory to communicate. > > Kind regards, > > John van Groningen _______________________________________________ clean-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.ru.nl/mailman/listinfo/clean-list
