Re: [fpc-pascal] Acitve Object Messaging Library

2010-04-05 Thread Werner Van Belle
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > MPI is for passing messages between parallel running tasks. (the name > means Message Passing Interface) > This is what Active Objects does. > > To me, the difference seems that Active Objects runs within a single > process, and MPI allows to run the tasks in different

Re: [fpc-pascal] Acitve Object Messaging Library

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Werner Van Belle wrote: 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

Re: [fpc-pascal] Acitve Object Messaging Library

2010-04-05 Thread Werner Van Belle
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 contrib

Re: [fpc-pascal] Acitve Object Messaging Library

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hello, This looks promising. Can you explain the similarities and differences with MPI ? Several people have asked about MPI in Free Pascal. Maybe this is an answer for them. Michael. On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Werner Van Belle wrote: Hello, After the couple of questions I had about reference co

[fpc-pascal] Acitve Object Messaging Library

2010-04-04 Thread Werner Van Belle
Hello, After the couple of questions I had about reference counting and cmpxchg, I can finally share what we have been working on, this would be the eternal gratitude part. A freepascal implementation of active objects. http://werner.yellowcouch.org/Papers/activeobjects/index.html From the abstr