John M McIntosh wrote:
> Ok, I have to comment since i'm up to my neck with alligators over  
> performSelectorOnMainThread: In fact just this evening 4 hours toasted  
> to document a bug with this call with Apple for tomorrow.
> 
> (a) people don't realize with the carbon os-x vm we run on the Main  
> Thread and poll for os-x events that then get dispatch to the squeak  
> vm event handlers.
> This leads to the interesting jerky non-responsive feedback you get  
> with the VM when you accidently kill the morphic polling loop, since  
> we aren't servicing
> the UI event polling fast enough since we are using a fallback 1/2  
> second ancient  piece of code that in the past looked for the  
> interrupt key.

This is gone in the new event sensor design.

Michael

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