On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 22:05 +0200, Roberto -MadBob- Guido wrote: > Perhaps my preoccupations are due my bad understanding of signal dispatching > internals, and the addiction of a object to monitor and for which dispatch > signals do not introduce overheads on scheduling: any comment on it, or > demystifing readings about? it might help to realize that signals are nothing more (or less) than a way to execute a list of closures (a closure being a function and its arguments). there is no magic going on when a signal is "emitted": all that is happening is that a list of closures gets executed (either partially or completely depending on the signal itself and/or on the return values from the closures). > Just to remain in theme: what's the current purpose of GMainContext? Only to > abstract handling of multiple GSources? for your purposes, that may be a good way to view it. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
