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Re: non-blocking reads/writes and event loops
- To: jingham at apple dot com (Jim Ingham)
- Subject: Re: non-blocking reads/writes and event loops
- From: Todd Whitesel <toddpw at windriver dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 02:48:46 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: nsd at redhat dot com (Nick Duffek), gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
> I don't know. Tcl is pretty much all event driven. It took a lot of work
> to come up with a model that works well for all sorts of different input
> sources, and on a wide variety of different platforms, but having done the
> work, it is not that hard now to plug in new sources, and get them to play
> nice. I guess I am saying that we have some models where, once correctly
> juked around, the results are quite nice.
While I agree with the theory here, I take issue with the statement that Tcl
implements it.
I was actually quite disappointed by the sources to Tcl/Tk 8.0.2 which
appear to have subtle sub-event loops creeping around whenever callbacks
are used.
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Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ windriver.com