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Article #53Re: uC++ First Release
From: Andrew Walduck
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 03:04
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 03:04
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Having used this package as a student...I strongly recommend that anyone who is interested in using concurrent algorithms take a very serious look at it. Its very slick. Image tasks, threads, and co-routines as C++ objects. To send, or receive messages from them, just call a member function... Imagine spawning a task with: uTask ptr = new aTask(parameters....); communicating with it with... ptr->aMessage(someMessage); ptr->aDifferentMessage(anotherMessage); and waiting for it to complete with... delete ptr; It uses statically typed messages... In the 2B CS course at Waterloo, you develop such projects as: A concurrent quick sort...instead of recursing, you spawn child tasks, and wait for them to complete! a small parser that uses co-routines... a simulation of an assembly line with workers, managers, and inspectors... (each is a single task, and they communicate!!) a disk-scheduler that will accept input from multiple tasks and several others...(which I've forgotten...but were very interesting!!) Cheers. Andrew P.S. How's this for a glowing testimonial??? ;-) I liked using it... Andrew Walduck -- OMRON Japan -- andrew@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Spencer says "Retch barf." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!sh.wide!astemgw!relay-omron!frf!lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp!andrew From: andrew@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp (Andrew Walduck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.mips,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: uC++ First Release Message-ID: <1378@frf.omron.co.jp> Date: 8 Apr 92 03:04:53 GMT References: <1992Apr7.213633.6366@watmath.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@frf.omron.co.jp Reply-To: andrew@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp (Andrew Walduck) Followup-To: comp.sys.sequent Lines: 41