January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
9h 23m
English
CHAPTER 22
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Leveraging Isolates for Concurrency and Multi-Processing
In this chapter we’ll cover what isolates are and how you can use them—along with concurrency and multi-processing—to run your Dart programs. We’ll learn everything about isolates through two simple examples so that you will know how to use multi-processing in your programs. Dart also lets you work concurrently and use all multi-processing capabilities, thanks to the multi-core in our modern computers.
In other programming languages this is known as threads. The difference between the threads in other languages and the Dart isolates is that the latter do not share memory; each ...
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