Subj : Re: Threading in JavaScript
To   : comp.lang.javascript,netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Gordan <gordan@_NOSPAM_bobich.net>
Date : Sun Feb 02 2003 11:37 pm

Steve van Dongen wrote:

[snip]

> I your code, your setTimeout is really not doing anything.  Your first
> for loop runs, burning up all the available processor time, and
> afterwards your other for loop runs.
> 
> The idea is to have your Thread1 and Thread2 functions do only a
> little bit of real work, then use setTimeout to run them again a
> little later.  I changed Thread1 to do 1 iteration of the "loop" per
> function call and Thread2 to do 10 iterations per function call.

[snip]

Right, I get it. So I cannot really have separate threads running 
simultaneously. I just get each "thread" to schedule itself in the future, 
iteration by iteration. OK, I can see how that works. Not quite proper 
"threading", though. :-(

Thanks, anyway. It's a useful method for "pretending" that there are several 
things running at the same time. ;-)

Regards.

Gordan

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