On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 10:15:36AM +0100, "Torsten Hüter" wrote: > Hi Chris, > > please read the mail archive (Jan 2016), I've already tried this and > experimented with different coroutine implementations. I've tested of course > a variant based on pthreads too. > > The major showstopper was, that's not recommended to use threads for GUI > work, please read: > http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1/overview_thread.html > > "[..] When writing a multi-threaded application, it is strongly recommended > that no secondary threads call GUI functions. [..]" > > This would be very restrictive and can't be guaranteed.
With a proper implementation this should be indistinguishable from coroutines, including to wx. > > If you're still interested, I could upload this implementation on launchpad > again. I've stopped working on this, because Tom proposed his libcontext and > with the bugfixes it was working so far well on Windows. > > -- > > In my opinion I'd drop coroutines entirely - they are nice if they're a > build-in language concept (like Modula-2 coroutines), but C++ has not yet the > best support for that. Alternatives are simple FSMs, sure that makes the code > a bit bulkier, but would work on every machine without having to maintain > assembler code. The disadvantage is the work that you have to invest there > (I have not much time to develop KiCad code anymore). > > Thanks, > Torsten > > Sorry for the double post, forgotten to switch to plain text. > > >> My point is that threading could be used to implement a *drop-in > >> replacement*...not that the tool framework should be structured around > >> them, but that it continues to use coroutines, and we make a coroutine > >> library that is implemented using threads... :P > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
