Re: Spawn not working
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texte = At 9:48 Uhr -0800 04.01.1999, PCS Technical Support wrote:>>I tried [spawn] for the first time, but it does not work:>>
>>The browser does not show anything before the whole thing is finished and>>[elapsedtime] shows the full time...>>Are there some operations which [spawn] cannot handle?>>There are some OS limitations (MacOS in particular) that cause it to be not>nearly as smooth as we'd like. Are you using MacOS and WebCatalog.acgi in>this case? If so, that may explain it, because threads only switch once>every 5 seconds or so under those conditions. The plugin will>thread-switch faster, and NT even faster than that.I'm on a rather slow Mac (Performa 6400/180), with WebStar 2.1 and WebCatPlugin.My action within [spawn] takes 7 seconds on this machine.I thought, [spawn] is multitasking and creates a new process. But it seemsto be multithreading.What is thread switching?Does it mean, the new thread takes over some time after it is initiated?Peter++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Peter Ostry - Vienna/Austria - www.ostry.comFon ++43-1-877 74 54 Fax ++43-1-877 74 54-21++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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At 9:48 Uhr -0800 04.01.1999, PCS Technical Support wrote:>>I tried [spawn] for the first time, but it does not work:>> >>The browser does not show anything before the whole thing is finished and>>[elapsedtime] shows the full time...>>Are there some operations which [spawn] cannot handle?>>There are some OS limitations (MacOS in particular) that cause it to be not>nearly as smooth as we'd like. Are you using MacOS and WebCatalog.acgi in>this case? If so, that may explain it, because threads only switch once>every 5 seconds or so under those conditions. The plugin will>thread-switch faster, and NT even faster than that.I'm on a rather slow Mac (Performa 6400/180), with WebStar 2.1 and WebCatPlugin.My action within [spawn] takes 7 seconds on this machine.I thought, [spawn] is multitasking and creates a new process. But it seemsto be multithreading.What is thread switching?Does it mean, the new thread takes over some time after it is initiated?Peter++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Peter Ostry - Vienna/Austria - www.ostry.comFon ++43-1-877 74 54 Fax ++43-1-877 74 54-21++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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