Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > Hello, > This looks promising. > > Can you explain the similarities and differences with MPI ? That would require me to read up on what MPI is and honoustly, I'm not a big fan on doing that, certainly not after I went to their homepage and saw around 70 lines of contributing companies, all of them big names.
If my guess is correct, MPI is similar to a CORBA IDL Specification (in general terms). If this undertsanding is correct then MPI has nothing to do with the Acrtive Objects as I present them. E.g: the active objects library cannot perform interprocess communication and certainly not accross different machines. It only deals with thread activation and deactivation at appropriate times. To do so, it uses a queue in which a normal stackframe is pushed and at a later time executed. > Several people have asked about MPI in Free Pascal. Maybe > this is an answer for them. People hoping that this is an MPI (in the sense of http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/) for pascal will be disappointed. Those who are looking for an alternative to thread based approaches to deal with multiple tasks in a single program might find this interesting. Wkr, -- http://werner.yellowcouch.org/
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