From: buzz_mccool@yahoo.com   
      
   On 7/29/2025 12:49 AM, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   ...   
   >   
   > Gforth is not for small embedded systems, but anyway, the development   
   > version does multi-tasking by mapping each task to a POSIX thread   
   > (within one process), with the classical USER variable mechanism for   
   > task-local variables, multiprocessing/preemption (coming from POSIX   
   > threads), and an actor-like mechanism for communicating between tasks   
   > and for synchronizing them (there are also other synchronizing   
   > mechanisms).  The messages that the actor-like mechanism delivers to   
   > the mailbox of a task are xts that the receiving task executes.  You   
   > can read about that in https://net2o.de/gforth/Multitasker.html.   
   >   
   The link above says "Gforth offers two multitaskers: a traditional,   
   cooperative round-robin multitasker, and a pthread-based multitasker ... "   
   then has additional links to Pthreads and Cilk. Is the traditional multitasker   
   at the Cilk link?   
      
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