Concurrency in Pike

2014-05-02 Thread Danesh Daroui
Dear Pike users and developers, I wanted to ask whether there is any library implemented for Pike to support concurrency or if it planed to do so as an embedded feature or added package? I think the language has a great potential to be widely used if such enhancements are done. I am

Re: Concurrency in Pike

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Danesh Daroui danesh.dar...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to ask whether there is any library implemented for Pike to support concurrency or if it planed to do so as an embedded feature or added package? I think the language has a great potential to be widely used if

Re: Concurrency in Pike

2014-05-02 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi, Thanks for your answer. I guess threads is something that I was looking for. By concurrency I meant being able to spawn multiple threads which will logically run in parallel. Moreover having the possibility to define mutex and semaphores which are apparently done in Pike (mutex is at

Re: Concurrency in Pike

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Danesh Daroui danesh.dar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your answer. I guess threads is something that I was looking for. By concurrency I meant being able to spawn multiple threads which will logically run in parallel. Moreover having the possibility to define

Re: Concurrency in Pike

2014-05-02 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi Chris, Thank you for your comprehensive answer. Its good to know that Pike supports such important features and I am actually very keen to discover how mutex works in Pike. However, I guess concurrency was not in the main focus when Pike was designed but it is still very good that it supports