Ian Wood wrote:

On 4 Oct 2006, at 23:04, Richard Gaskin wrote:

What sorts of tasks would threading be essential for?

Well, one thing that leaps to mind immediately - stopping the entire application freezing up when executing a lengthy shell script or AppleScript.

The operating system is already threaded. This example doesn't necessarily require Rev to give us the overhead and complexity of running our own threads, merely to get notification of the completion of an OS thread.

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 Richard Gaskin
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