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Re: Very strange problems
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Sun, 21 May 2000 19:04:23 GMT
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On Sun, 21 May 2000, Luis Villa wrote:

Nope, no multi-threading.

Good. It's generally solid, but can cause some issues from time to time.

What sort of "issues" are these? Are you referring to the normal issues of
multithreading (synchronization, deadlock, etc.), or specific
legOS-related problems with it? I have a program that uses a decent amount
of multithreading, and I'd hate to have to fight the OS from yet another
angle. :)

--
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by
fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare

Mike Ash - <http://www.mikeash.com/>, <mailto:mail@mikeash.com>



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  Re: Very strange problems
 
(...) Just that it is not pre-emptive. If you don't msleep() at the appropriate places in your code, you'll never go back to the scheduler or the other threads. This can come as a surprise, since you'll only notice it when one thread never executes. (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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(...) Redundancy is good :) (...) Good. It's generally solid, but can cause some issues from time to time. <snip lots of monkey talk :) > (...) Distance of movement or consistency (i.e. always forward) or both for fitness? Sounds really cool. Good (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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