"Robin Berjon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jim Ley wrote: >> "Ronan Oger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>>Right. But id does have timekeeping capabilities, so building keying and >>>timing capability from these is simply a matter of someone building a >>>base >>>class. >> >> No, since that would require more than the single thread available to you >> of >> ecmascript. > > Not necessarily, POE that Ronan was mentionning can more or less emulate > that sort of behaviour on Perls built without threading. But it's by far > not the best option.
but it presumably does that with a busy wait? seen as generally ecmascript is run in the UI thread, you get the lovely "locking up" effect of the browser. Jim. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
