I'm with Daniel on this - do NOT underestimate the difficulties of
threading code.
On 09/11/2006, at 11:43 AM, Daniel L. Taylor wrote:
* I don't think we're ever going to see a fully preemptive-thread safe
framework. Large parts of Win32, Carbon, and Cocoa are not thread
safe.
yep - I actually doubt this is something do-able. Transparently
making things thread-safe is *hard* computer science.
* For those thinking of jumping ship to Cocoa over this: having
done both, I
don't consider threading on Cocoa to be any easier than threading
on RB.
as someone who has written threaded programs in Cocoa, Windows and
WinCE, I agree entirely.
Useful articles in this Queue issue:
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=332
Andy the thread-scarred (Pernese reference ;-)
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