Re: Threads

[Mark Seaborn]

Svanberg Liss <lisss@ydab.se> writes:

> Aah! You want transparent per-function threading at the binary
> level!  Actually, I'm quite interested in such ideas.

It sounds like you want a dataflow language.  Take a look at the Oz
language:  <http://www.mozart-oz.org/>.  It requires you to say when
separate threads should be started, but apart from that the flow of
data is handled transparently -- threads will suspend until a value
they need becomes available.

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