Re: General question about GNUStep

[Nicolas Roard]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Simeon Mitev<develop@paymobile.me> wrote:
> Of course, I meant native hyper threading support :)
>
>> Nice Nicola,
>>
>> Thank you for the good presentation!
>>
>> I have got answers for some of my questions. What I am still interested in
>> is multi threading support in objC compiler and runtime. While the server
>> application will run on unix with 2 quad core processors I will definitively
>> need to use multi threading to get a real benefit from the hardware. In C++
>> I can use also openMP (http://openmp.org/wp/) in example. Thoughts ?

OpenMP is for shared memory multiprocessing, not just multithreading.
It's also available in C, so you can directly use it in Objective-C if
you want...

Objective-C and GNUstep do support multithreading (see NSThread). Have
a look also at Etoile's EtoileThread implementation,
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/etoile/trunk/Etoile/Frameworks/EtoileFoundation/EtoileThread/
(which let you trivially run an object in a separate thread and
implements futures for returned values,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises), it's _really_
nice.

>>>>> It looks like I will go back to C++ or Java for the server,
>>>>
>>>> Why?  Objective-C is much better than either... it's a very good server
>>>> solution (C++ is too inflexible and Java is slow/clumsy).
>>>
>>> Yes! :-)
>>>
>>> Simeon,
>>>
>>> you can check my  "Building server applications using Objective-C and
>>> GNUstep" Fosdem 2009 presentation on
>>>
>>>  http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Presentations/index.html
>>>
>>> if you're interested in a quick summary overview.  If you're starting
>>> from scratch, and are using Objective-C on the client anyway, it's really
>>> worth for you to consider writing your server in Objective-C too - even if
>>> they talk to each other using a custom, language-independent protocol. ;-)
>>>
>>> Anyway, whatever you choose to do, good luck with your project. :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
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