Re: forget coorporative multitasking in .NET ?

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From: Nick Malik [Microsoft] (nickmalik_at_hotmail.nospam.com)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:30:06 GMT

Hi Frans,

I do have one small disagreement with your otherwise excellent description.

> We all do have synchronous multitasking code today: simply write a
> routine and call from that routine your other routines. That's
> co-operative multitasking.

I disagree. The way to get cooperative multitasking today is to put code
into a timer event. As far as the programmer is concerned, he or she didn't
make any "threading" calls. Writing a routine that calls other routines is
not multitasking at all. The original routine places items on the stack and
the subroutine is called. There is only one thread.

The entire rest of your message was excellent, BTW. 

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