On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 08:13:53AM -0500, Brian Tiffin wrote: > Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >hi, > > > >do cobol in general and gnucobol specifically possess any capabilities > >that can facilitate writing programs which can take advantage of > >today's multi-core hardware systems? > > > >suppose i wish to write a financial accounting system running atop a > >gnu/linux based distribution like say ubuntu, would gnucobol run as a > >single threaded process? or can i introduce concurrency? and is it easy > >to achieve? > > > >if yes, any pointers for reading material would be nice to have. :) > > > >thanks, > > Update and correction; I wrote the last message too fast. (And pretty much > verified Dr. Hipp's views). libmicrohttpd was likely using "fork" when the > small demo I setup was borked. Threading will be a deeper issue, and will > almost always need lock step code to protect shared data spaces. > > Sorry for any confusion my initial, less than clear message sounded. > Threads are evil, avoid them. ;-) noted. :) i am currently refreshing my computer science knowledge (hands-on) and will be following that up with learning 'cobol' thoroughly using a book on the same by mr. coughlan. thanks for sharing the information and dr. hipp's views. :) ~mayuresh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-cobol-list mailing list open-cobol-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-cobol-list
