Hey Greg, thanks for the reply.

<<Maarten Koopmans has written a lightweight threading engine for use in
Rugby, which does cooperative multithreading, and I have built something
similar myself.>>

I'll take a look into Rugby.

<<< If a rebol script checked my inbox for messages and replied to those
that were on my "friends" list it would read and reply one at a time. Is
it possible to concurrently check multiple emails? >>>

<<In this example, given that the volume will probably be very low, what
does it gain you?>>

You're right in that for my personal mail, I shouldn't have an issue.
However, what if such a solution were to be used for corporation or even
as a service to the mass market were potentially hundreds of emails are
being sent per minute?

Matt

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Hi Matt,

<< Is it possible for REBOL to multi-thread? If that's what its called.
Is there an example on the rebol site? >>



Since multi-threading often causes more problems than it solves, the
real question is: Do you *need* it?



Another approach, of course, is that you might build a larger system out
of multiple scripts, each of which would be handled by the OS but could
communicate with the others via some IPC mechanism.

--Gregg

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