[MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)

Jeff Kesselman jeffk at tenetwork.com
Thu May 1 20:34:17 CEST 1997


At 07:45 PM 5/1/97 PST8PDT, you wrote:
><By request, a x-post of mine from rgma >
>I believe whether you use OS-supplied threading or your 
>application simulates threading makes no difference.

Well, no classification differebnce. A very real practical difference.
Systems that use OS-threading can take advantage of hardware such as
multi-processors.  Applciaiton implemented threading generally can not.

>A interesting doubt crosses my mine.
>Should I be using ADA or something similar?  
>

Whelpers, ColdC is an object opriented event driven semi-tjhreaded
(applciation threads) system...

JK




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