Flex and Concurrency

[Ashish Rajput]

Congratulations on the book Satish. I was wondering if AIR would be able to harness the OS level bridge in order to bring in multi-threading and thus take advantage of multi-core cpu's. This is one area where Java far excels many other platforms in my mind. What do you think?
Thanks

[Satish Kore]

Hi Ashish,

Thank you.

I agree with you on this point that AIR needs to have multi-thread support, I hope Adobe will put this into future AIR releases. So far there is Merapi (http://www.merapiproject.net/) which seems to bridge this gap, however I have not personally used it.

Thanks,

[amit punekar]

Hi,
Just wandering, would this mean that Flex client running on client browser would be able to spawn threads ?
Would it be advisable?
I might have misunderstood the context of question but just wanted to get more insight on this.

Regds
amit

[Paul Sturrock]

AIR does not run in the browser, it is a stand alone Flash client.

[amit punekar]

Hi,
thanks for the reply.
Yeah, it runs in the Flash client but still the client OS will need to handle the threading, isnt it?
Thats what I was curious about?
How good would be that depending on client OS to manage the threads of a web-application running in a fat and Flash client.

regards,
Amit