Blog Post on a Worker Pool Design Pattern without VI Server

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Sometimes you think there's nothing left to discover and then someone shows you something you never thought of...
This was fascinating. Tomi, a frequent poster over at the Lava forums, posted a new blog entry on his ExpressionFlow blog on a Worker Pool design pattern that doesn't use VI Server to spawn the worker threads, but instead uses the new recursion functionality in LV8.6 and specifically 2009! This is truly an interesting premise, because it not only uses recursion, which people have wanted to use natively in LabVIEW for years, but it uses recursion in a way that standard imperative programming languages would not do well, even though they've supported recursion from the start!
Check it out.
Jarrod S.
National Instruments

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