Of course they are algoritm and app design issues, but language constructs have always been added during the evolution of programming languages in order to help make those issues more manageable and readable.
That's why OOP language constructs were added for example - to ease the task of building very large complex apps with loads of intertwined data sets... As to the rock solid 2004r4 issue. Naturally that is a no brainer. It woujld be nice to be reassured in some way as to how RS is addressing these issues going forward- For example, have they got internal systems in place for unit testing, a separate QA division, are they already using RB2005+ for their work, or are they still using 5.5.5 ( IE not eating their own dog food ). Although I am always suggesting ideas for new features, I could personally live with a "feature-freeze" for the next 3 or 6 months if it meant we were able to get a "reference" release of RB, that allowed everyone out there to migrate their legacy apps to RB2005 and finally move away from 5.5.5. I wouldn't mind paying for an extra 12 months of upgrades just to achieve this, since I have so many eggs in the RB "basket". On 8/11/06 20:08, "Norman Palardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 08, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote: > >> Just to add - I personally see this feature as being far more >> important >> than Cocoa in the short term. It is something that many of us >> ( those of >> use that have apps using very processor intensive code ) could gain >> from >> immediately. > > There are ways to do that now BUT they are algorithm and application > design issues as opposed to language constructs. > There is a PreemptiveThread class (http://www.taylor-design.com/ > PreemptiveThreadTDDemo.zip). > Or write your algorithm to use async shells and pass data back and > forth to achieve your goal. > > Despite being very useful I'd like a rock solid stable environment first > Crashes with 2006r4 are frustratingly common > _______________________________________________ > 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>
