pthread support

[JMLX42]

Hello,

great project! Open sourcing this is incredible and I hope you'll enjoy what the community will make out of it :)

Anyway, I read that starting at Flash 11.5 the x-compiler will support threading by binding pthreads. Is it working ?

As Flash has workers but no real threads, what are the limitations or does any pthread app. run properly when x-compiled?

Thank you for your help,

[alexmac]

Flash has traditional workers (no sharing of AS3 objects) but the contents of ByteArrays can be shared. couple that with some synchronization/CAS primitives (exposed in the flash.concurrent namespace) and Alchemy/FlasCC/Crossbridge fully support everything you can do with pthreads without any limitations or need to modify your code.

Take a look at the examples in the SDK to see some threading: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/flascc/docs/samples.html