Agreed. Once the poor guys are past the UB/Xcode hell and other outstanding bug issues, this would be something I am sure a lof of RB developers could benefit from. In fact it could be another area in which RB can stand out from the "crowd".
PS , some of those screen shots of "Eve" on their web site look incredible - makes me proud to be 1/2 Icelandic :) Now if I could could only get my hands on some Skyr, or Hardfisk.... On 4/10/06 01:27, "Björn Eiríksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forgot to add that we have definitely entered new times where > multiple CPU's/Cores will be the norm, so in my mind then REALbasic > and every other development tool will simply have to somehow give the > tools to developers to make use of those additional CPU's. > > I think that is a reasonable request. It might not be easy for them > right now, but the more common this hardware setting will be and the > more apps that make use of it then the pressure will only increase. > > Björn > > On 4.10.2006, at 00:18, Björn Eiríksson wrote: > >> >> On 4.10.2006, at 00:09, Daniel Stenning wrote: >> >>> Question 1) >>> >>> - If a machine has dual CPUs - either per chip or on a quad mac - >>> do threads >>> that I create inside an RB app always sit inside the same process >>> and CPU ? >>> If so, is there a way of splitting the workload in an app across >>> CPUS ? >>> >>> Question 2) >>> >>> While waiting for my mac to run a particularly long task, I did some >>> browsing and came across an Icelandic company CCP that wrote and >>> runs a >>> massively multiplayer online game called "Eve". It says in its >>> technical >>> blurb that it uses a special version of Python to achieve high >>> concurrency >>> and parallelism - called "Stackless" python. And states this >>> allowed them to >>> gain much better performance and scaling with regard to parallelism , >>> concurrency etc. >>> >>> Did a a little brief reading , but does anyone out there know >>> about this? >>> Is this something that we could benefit from in RB?. It seems to >>> be a >>> "Python" thing at the moment only. But I doubt if theres anything >>> fundamental to stop it from being used in other languages.. >>> >>> Bjorn @ Einhugur - know anything about this or your icelandic >>> comrades ? >> >> >> No, sorry I don't know a lot about it, I know there was a ad the >> other day in the paper, they were looking for people. >> >> I also know that the backed is MS SQL Server (probably clustered). >> >> -- >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> Björn Eiríksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Einhugur Software >> http://www.einhugur.com/ >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> Einhugur Software has sold its products in 54 countries world wide. >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> For support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To post on the maillist: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: >> <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> >> >> Search the archives of this list here: >> <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
