[clean-list] Concurrent/parallel threads in CLEAN

[Parnell Flynn]

Thanks for the reply.

Are there any plans to add any of the features presented in Pascal
Serrarens's paper?  Any plans to bring the Concurrent back to Concurrent
CLEAN?

I really enjoy the CLEAN development environment and the language in
general.  I feel that adding this kind of concurrent/parallel API would
really make people stand up and take notice of CLEAN. 

Cheers,
Parnell 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John van Groningen [mailto:johnvg at cs.ru.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:54 AM
> To: Parnell Flynn
> Cc: clean-list at cs.ru.nl
> Subject: Re: [clean-list] Concurrent/parallel threads in CLEAN
> 
> Parnell Flynn wrote:
> >I have a question about the state of Concurrent Clean.
> >
> >In the CleanLangRep.2.1 it states that since CLEAN 2.0 the support
for
> >concurrent evaluations ({P} and {I} annotations has been removed.
> >
> >I have been reading the "Explicit Message Passing for Concurrent
Clean"
> >paper by Pascal R. Serrarens and I was wondering if any of the
concepts
> >presented in that paper have been added to CLEAN.  Specifically
> >SChannels and RChannels and ThreadEnv (newIntThread, newParThread
etc).
> 
> No, this has not been added.
> 
> >If these have not been added to CLEAN how do I create and use
multiple
> >threads on multiple processors?  I have looked through the libraries
but
> >I have not found what I am looking for yet.
> 
> Unfortunately, the only way to do this at the moment is to use the API
of
> the operating system to start several applications and use for example
> messages or shared memory to communicate.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> John van Groningen