On Feb 16, 2006, at 5:05 PM, jon pipitone wrote:
Mike Woodworth wrote:
yep, loop ends yield to the main loop, and the
DisableBackgroundTasks pragma is the proper solution.
If this is in fact what is happening, then isn't this a big fat
bug? I mean, no one wants compiler optimizations causing this sort
of wacky behaviour, and no one wants to put pragmas around every loop.
it may be a bug in the documentation - i know this behavior has been
discussed on the list a lot - but i don't think its documented.
as i see it, there are two ways for realbasic to handle async
operations... add yields for you (and provide a means via
disablebackgroundtask to override it) or the opposite - never yield
and make users sprinkle their code with yield calls. either way is
going to burn people. you are one such fatality - but given that you
figured out the problem yourself and were able to correct it means
they probably erred on the right end of this. the problems you see
are more likely to occur less often and to more advanced programmers,
whereas the flip side will make all novices' code painfully blocky
and sluggish, and puts undo burden on new adopters.
mike
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