Re: Todo list



On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 16:04:33 Chris Gonnerman wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Peter Williams wrote:
> >Hi everyone, sorry for being absent for a little while.
> >
> >The difficulty of threading is not insubstantial. However, libmutt does
> >have code to do this. OTOH, we hate libmutt :-). It's something I'll look
> >into after I finish the new balsa-init.c.
> 
> Debugging threaded code on top of GTK is much harder than debugging a
> finite-state machine.  I have an ugly, freestanding program (GUI unfinished)
> ....

Unfortunately, I was also talking about following discussion threads, not
multithreading. I believe that Gnome requires threading, so making this
a requirement would not be unreasonable. It is true that we can take 
advantage of the select() in the g_input_xxx functions, but we're not talking
lots of an advantage here -- on the order of fractions of milliseconds.
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Peter Williams peter@newton.cx



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