Ron Adam, 08.08.2010 05:17:
Would it be even remotely possible...
... to write a co-function program in a way where it could be switched from cooperative multitasking to preemptive multitasking by the use of a single flag? (I'd be +10,000 for this.)
I wouldn't.
If so, it would enable a way to hide a lot of details of multi-tasking and multi-processing in a convenient to use api.
Totally not. Cooperative multitasking is about predictable interaction between parts of a program. Preemptive multitasking (in the sense of threading) is about non-deterministic concurrency. Except for some very special cases, there is no way you can take a piece of code that uses cooperative multitasking, switch it over to run concurrently, and still have it execute safely and correctly. I may end up liking the idea of using yield statements for thread synchronisation points, though. Stefan