Re: [sc-dev] jost - gui helpfiles - some typos

[Julian Rohrhuber <rohrhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> IIUC, in SC an operation is either blocking or asynchronous (because 
> VM threads are non-preemptive).

yes, you may have to block it though if you depend on the return of 
an asynchronous call (as we do with s.sync in the case of server 
client communication)


> Possibly that's another reason to isolate gui calls on one thread: 
> if objective-C allows preemptive threading (which it probably does), 
> thread safety is an issue that's avoided by queuing all calls in a 
> single thread. Just a guess.
>
> hjh
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
>
> > probably it is good to distinguish blocking from non-blocking 
> > (which can both be the case with either synchronous and 
> > asynchronous calls).
>
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