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@broncp I foresee an EXECUTE BACKGROUND statement. I wish I could share your optimism, this has been asked in Info Exchange sessions before, got massive votes but nothing seems to move. I agree that full MT would probably be like opening Pandora's box, but a technique to keep the UI thread free to respond to the user and the windows OS is AFAIK vital for a well behaving windows application. Windows applications that do not respond in a timely fashion cause focus problems and "application not responding" messages. Mike Fechner worked around the lack of a background thread by using a separate process and ZeroMQ in one of his demo applications. I like the demo but I think it's very un-ABL like to have to resort to such techniques unless they are incorporated into the language.
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