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From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Threads vs... not
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 15:13:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YQsREZ/VeOXUAnUr@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B3227CA8-0477-4424-9705-870430233DC7@serissa.com>

Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com> once said:
> What do folks think about event-driven programming as a substitute for
> threads in UI and process control settings?

Why not both?

https://swtch.com/~rsc/talks/threads07/
https://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/cws.pdf

Cheers,
  Anthony

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-04 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-04 21:48 Lawrence Stewart
2021-08-04 22:02 ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-04 22:41   ` John Cowan
2021-08-04 22:51     ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-05 20:32       ` Clem Cole
2021-08-06  0:55       ` Dan Cross
2021-08-04 22:13 ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2021-08-05 23:02 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-06 14:19   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-08-06 14:43     ` John Cowan
2021-08-06 15:12       ` Steffen Nurpmeso

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