From: Dale Arntson <d-arntson@uchicago.edu>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: Daniel Ortmann <ortmann@us.ibm.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: OCaml's long range graphical direction?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 14:30:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A805EFB.4A3CD002@uchicago.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010206102842.A27059@pauillac.inria.fr>
Correct me if I'm wrong about this. I believe GTK+ is reentrant. TK is
not. This can make a difference with regard to the ease and pleasure of
developing gui applications. From an emacs editor, you can only interact
with a reentrant gui application.
- Dale Arntson
Xavier Leroy wrote:
>
> > To what degree does threading affect the answer?
>
> No idea. I've heard plenty of claims that multithreading helps
> building good GUIs (see e.g. BeOS), yet most popular GUIs (including
> TK and I think GTK too) seem to manage fine without multithreading.
>
> If multithreading is a requirement, OCaml could probably cope with it
> using the "systems" thread library.
>
> Let us hear what other members of this list think about this.
>
> - Xavier Leroy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-07 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-05 17:48 Daniel Ortmann
2001-02-06 9:28 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-02-06 18:19 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-02-07 21:30 ` Pierre Weis
2001-02-08 7:32 ` Sven
2001-02-08 1:59 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-02-08 7:55 ` Sven
2001-02-09 8:47 ` Claudio Sacerdoti Coen
2001-02-09 10:00 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-02-08 20:35 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-02-09 1:28 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-02-09 18:11 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-02-10 13:01 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-02-09 20:01 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-02-12 14:52 ` Nicolas barnier
2001-02-12 23:47 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-02-15 12:21 ` [Caml-list] " Sven LUTHER
2001-02-08 10:28 ` Alan Schmitt
2001-02-09 1:24 ` bcpierce
2001-02-06 20:30 ` Dale Arntson [this message]
2001-02-07 0:39 ` John Max Skaller
2001-02-08 20:01 ` Francois Rouaix
2001-02-09 9:41 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-02-09 9:49 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-02-09 19:58 ` Jerome Vouillon
2001-02-10 12:36 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-02-10 21:25 ` Pierre Weis
2001-02-09 17:50 ` John Max Skaller
2001-02-06 19:33 Maxence
2001-02-09 23:31 Arturo Borquez
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