Re: multi-threading

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "CS" == Carl Scheffler <address@hidden> writes:

CS> Does Swarm support multi-threading? Or in other words will the
CS> Swarm system make full use of a dual-processor computer?

Not yet.  The idea is to enhance the concurrent action handling to
actually spawn off threads; the logical model is there.
Unfortunately, this work keeps getting put on hold (e.g. for Java).

A feature that I'd like to have is an executive with load balancing
smarts to direct object migration.  For a MPI-based implementation of
concurrency in Swarm, we can use HDF5's parallel data access features
to handle the physical movement of agents between processors.  For a
multithreaded implementation of concurrency in Swarm, we can use Lisp
serialization over raw sockets to handle the physical movement of
agents.

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