Hi all, I've seen quite a few posts about threading problems in this group and am surprised to see that nobody recommended cooperative threading using generators. See http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2001-October/002056.html and http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pythrd.html
Advantages: * Guaranteed to work regardless of underlying thread support * Much simpler to code and debug, no need for locks, semaphores etc. * Allows extremely efficient scheduling. Thread creation/deletion overhead is minimal. Disadvantages: * Potentially long running or blocking operations (file.read etc) need to be handled with care. The flexible scheduling is especially useful. In my MDI app I have a fifo queue for each document and the scheduler runs the queue for the currently focused document before any others. Stephen. -- Stephen Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://meld.sf.net visual diff and merge _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
