On 30 April 2013 12:26, richard boaz <ivor.boaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> [...] >> I've heard from quite a few people in particular in the GNOME camp who >> believe that everything should be asynchronous and that multithreading >> is evil. > > i don't know who these GNOME people are (very short?), but going with > "multi-threading is evil" is an unbelievable statement: i'm gobsmacked. I think they mean "multithreaded GUIs are evil", which is surely correct. Keep the GUI as a single-threaded async thing, it's much, much simpler and safer. Multithreaded media libraries and so on are very good idea (as you say). John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
