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Re: New brainfart for threaded VFS and data passing between threads.


From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:53:01 -0700

Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Forth is a stack-based language. I would guess this limits
> concurrency to 1 in all cases. 

[...]

> That link is for a multiprocessor on a chip, it doesn't say what 
> concurrency you can get from _1_ forth program (my guess is 1 since 
> colorforth is stack based with 2 stacks for programs+data).

I'm really interested in your reasoning ("guess") here.  What is it
about being stack-based that you think limits concurrency?

-Chris



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