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Noticias externas — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:02:20 GMT

Herb Sutter gave one of my favorite and inspiring presentations.  It is called "The Free Lunch

Active Objects and Futures

jaredpar's WebLog — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:57:09 GMT

Herb Sutter gave one of my favorite and inspiring presentations.  It is called "The Free Lunch

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Brian Brewder — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:07:35 GMT

I just watched a couple of the ch9 screencasts and the PFX looks great. This will really make working with threads easier.

It would be very handy if you added a ParallelQueue class (name it whatever you want :)). The ParallelQueue class would be a thread-safe queue that you could add things to and whatever gets added would be processed when a thread from the pool was available.

The way I imagine it, this class would be initialized with a delegate to do the processing and would have a Start, Stop, and maybe a Pause method (if Stop did something in addition to what a pause would do, such as raising a particular event).

Another idea is to add new keywords to the next version of the languages. It would be cool to have a keyword that would automatically make a loop multi-threaded. It might not solve the more complex scenarios, but it would solve the most common scenarios and the complex scenarios would still be possible through the libraries.

Example:

For Each o As MyObject In myListOfObject Parallel

' Does stuff

What do you think? I haven't had a chance to play with this library yet so some of this stuff might already be there or in the plans.

Software is sucks? Probably it really is!

Just code - Tamir Khason — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:57:17 GMT

Remember new features, that make your code unreadable ? A couple of days ago, CLR team released first