This is correct. There are certainly multiple threads in the flash player. But The AVM does not allow applications to spawn threads directly. However things like sound and video and probably other things execute in separate threads. I am not familiar with the flash source but it is likely that async communications is also handled by separate threads.
Regards Hank On 12/3/05, Boon Chew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have read in this forum that someone loosely coined the phrase "Flash is > a single thread app", it's hard to imagine something as high performance and > intricate as Flash to be a single-threaded app. > > So I started to take the above statement to mean that the Actionscript VM > executes all the code in a sequential fashion but that Flash player itself > is multithreaded, is that a right assumption? > > And what about code that are asynchronous in nature, such as sound playing > ( new Sound(), onSoundComplete), server-side call return (such as LoadVars, > XML.onLoad)? Are these all happening in the single thread of code execution? > > Looks like a book on Flash and AVM Internal would be nice. :) > > - boon > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Personals > Single? There's someone we'd like you to meet. > Lots of someones, actually. Try Yahoo! Personals > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
