PB v4.4 ?

[Seymour Clufley]

I acknowledged this isn't strictly coding-related. I almost put it into the Off-Topic section but that seemed a bit much.

Has there been any word on what area/s Fred & co are focussing on for PB4.4? The forum's search function doesn't seem to like decimal points so I can't search for any tidbits they may have mentioned.

To the PB team, please don't think I'm unappreciative of the work you're doing and the time it takes. I don't want to seem impatient (I'm only just delving into v4.3). But I, no doubt like other people, am curious about what's next for PureBasic.

[freak]

Due to popular request there won't a 4.40. We will do a 4.31 beta and stay there forever...

Just kidding. You can get some hints here: http://www.purebasic.fr/blog/?p=88
I may write some more about the ongoing work in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

[srod]

An interesting little entry in the blog there Freak about parallelisation (is there such a word?)

Must admit that hardware matters usually leave me scratching my head like a 5 year old, so please excuse the real dumb question here! In say a quad core machine; will a single threaded program simply not see the benefits of the 4-cores? What I mean is, do you need to scale up to using multiple threads before you get to see any noticeable improvements in the performance of your program etc?

Thanks.

[idle]

A multicore system will multitask faster, but unless you specifically code parallel procedures in your application, it won't benefit from the multicores, unless some functions provided by the language or OS are available in parallel a form.

I'm fairly sure I'd find good cause to become paralytic trying to write parallel procedures.

A good excuse for beer drinking if I ever heard one!

[srod]

And by 'parallel procedures' you simply mean those running in separate threads?

...A good excuse for beer drinking if I ever heard one!

Aye, I'll settle for a bad excuse (or any excuse for that matter!) as well!