On Dec 2, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02 Dec 2013, at 20:27, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: > >>>>> We try now to have responsive UIs in the sense the tools like Nautilus >>>>> try to >>>>> run things in a separate thread. >>>>> >>>>> I will do an experiment and fork each Nautilus opening to see if it can >>>>> save my ass :P >>>> :) >>>> >>>> personnally I would be really against because just forking is just a way >>>> to have a lot more mess in the future. >>> >>> Why ? >> >> Because you do not know when you invariants should hold. Normally you expect >> them to hold once the system is loaded. >> Because loading for example act as an atomic action when you modify the >> system. Now if your thread can see and modify >> different versions of the state be prepared to have really strange and >> difficult bugs to find. >> >> I prefer to have cache than to have forked processes around. > > Cache will not help you killing Nautilus when it freezes your image fork neither. > (why cache by the way ?) I thought the discussion was about speeding up nautilus when performing start up actions. > > Ben > >> >> Stef > >
