Sorry, I just asked a FAQ. What I meant was, is there any update to
the situation since 2003?
On Jan 26, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Stephen Nelson wrote:
Hello fellow POEts,
What's the current wisdom on mixing POE and perl 5.8+ threads?
I'm looking at writing a POE wrapper around the Video::Xine media
playback module. Video::Xine offers a couple of ways of delivering
events (such as "playback complete") to its caller-- you can either
make repeated calls to an event queue, or you can block and wait.
(I already use the "repeated calls" method for
Video::PlaybackMachine.)
The only problem is that doing repeated calls appears to make xine
playback jerky, so I'm looking to move to the "block and wait"
method. Xine only works with multithread-safe perls anyway.
I seem to recall that some time ago there was some difficulty with
mixing the two in the past, but I'm not clear on the current status.
I'm thinking about offering a POE::Component::Xine, then having two
subclasses behind the scenes-- one which uses multithreading and
one which does periodic checks. Poco::Xine will serve up whichever
subclass is desired (or seems appropriate).
Thanks for any and all help!
Stephen Nelson
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