Prototype Based Programming in Lisp?

[Paul Tarvydas]

On 16-07-04 04:08 AM, Kenneth Tilton wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 10:18 PM, David McClain 
> <dbm at refined-audiometrics.com <mailto:dbm at refined-audiometrics.com>> 
> wrote:
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>     Hi Ken,
>
>     I think I see what you are recommending. But one of the facts of
>     these external programs is the lack of multi-processing in their
>     JS interpreters.
>
>
> JS is always single-threaded. (But CLJS can fake threads -- they 
> really are doing some good work.)

Aside: all cpu cores are always single-threaded[*]. Multi-processing is 
an epicycle[+], an illusion.

If you don't need variables on the stack / full-preemption, nor access 
to special hardware like mmu's, then writing concurrent programs in js 
is a breeze (esp. with closures).

See collate-fbp-classic and FBP-from-scratch on 
https://github.com/guitarvydas or try reading my essays on 
https://bittarvydas.wordpress.com/.

pt

[*] modulo some kind of hardware assist in modern cpu's.  If you 
understand how to build a multi-tasking O/S on 8-bit cpu's, then you 
understand how to do this in js (or just about any language) as well.

[+] An epicycle because "we" decided to standardize on subroutines 
instead of co-routines at Albuquerque [Bugs Bunny].


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