I will give you a real life example of the need for multithreading. project to monitor status of computers on a network. this is done with a ping to each system from a timer. the result is either online or offline depending on ping results. The program is unresponsive to the user while multiple pings are done in the background. multithreading would allow the program to be responsive to users while other computer status is checked in another thread. furthermore if for some reason a person had 100 systems to monitor on the network, this will take time if many are in offline status leaving the program unresponsive to users for quite some time. creating 100 threads each pinging only one system then terminating after returning the result would make it even faster as all pings are done simultaneously.
So there is but one real world application for multithreading. not to mention it would make gambas immensely more powerful. -- Sent from: http://gambas.8142.n7.nabble.com/gambas-user-f3.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
