implementing scriptbasic multi- thread
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Implementing ScriptBasic Multi- Thread. How to embed ScriptBasic multi-thread ?. Who this presentation is for What is multi-thread, issues 2 ways of mt ScriptBasic Issues when implementing dependent threads Solutions for the issues. Contents. Who this presentation is for. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Implementing ScriptBasicMulti- Thread
How to embed ScriptBasicmulti-thread?
S B Contents
• Who this presentation is for• What is multi-thread, issues• 2 ways of mt ScriptBasic• Issues when implementing
dependent threads• Solutions for the issues
S B Who this presentation is for
• Curious (why things happen?)• Want to learn and understand how
ScriptBasic works• Want to embed ScriptBasic into
multi threaded application
NOT for those, who just• want to program in scriba
S B What is multi-thread?
• A single process runs several threads simultaneous
• A thread has its own stack and call sequence
• Threads share memory and other process resources
• UNIX thread is just a process w/o separate data
S B Issues regarding threads
• Don’t use global variables (except for constant values, like ScriptBasic syntax definition tables)
• Carefully design locking mechanisms
• Free memory yourself, don’t rely on OS
S B Enabling MT ScriptBasic
• No global variables• No memory leaking• Object oriented approach
(although it is C and not C++)• Thread and lock primitives for
portability (thread.c)
S B Two way of MT embedding
• Independent threads (ex: Eszter SB Engine v1.0b22)
• Dependent threads, long-life worker threads(ex: Eszter SB Engine v1.0b23)
S B Independent threads
• Threads run independent of each other• Possibility and advised to share
configuration file• Possibility and advised to cache
program code in memory (though even v1.0b22 does not)
• Can’t and should not share support function table
S B Dependent threads
• Threads access shared data• Example:
– session handling in web server– Long-life application „global”
variables– Locks (not flock, but memory
mutexes)
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S B Initializing and using global ST
• InitModuleInterface– Initializes the module Support
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• InheritModuleInterface– Sets the Support Function Inherit
pointer but has NO effect on the object Support Function Table
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S B Worker thread initialization
• DllMain (W32) or _init (UNIX) has no ST
• bootmodu is called for each thread
• Solution: use bootmodu with the help of– basext.h macros– Process level global variables
S B MT special macros and variables
#define SUPPORT_MULTITHREAD \ static MUTEX mxThreadCounter,mxInit;\ static int iFirst;\ static long lThreadCounter;
static void *pProcessLevelMemorySegment;
S B Initialization code in bootmodu
INC_THREAD_COUNTERINITLOCK if( iFirst ){ /* inherit malloc and free from pMemorySegment */ pProcessLevelMemorySegment = besINIT_SEGMENT(pSt->pEo->pMemorySegment,NULL);
besCreateThread(&hT,worker_thread, pSt->pEo->pSTI);
iFirst = 0 } INITUNLO /* unlock the init mutex */
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besSUB_KEEP long lTC;
GET_THREAD_COUNTER(lTC); if( lTC == 0 ){ INC_THREAD_COUNTER } return lTC ? 1 : 0;besEND
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