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From: Kerem Gümrükcü on 5 Feb 2010 20:28
If this works for you, then everything
is perfect,...!

Regards

Kerem

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"David Given" <dg(a)cowlark.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> On 05/02/10 02:26, Kerem Gümrükcü wrote:
> [...]
>> never rely on such a assumption! You should use some kind of
>> synchronization like kernel primitives for tasks that possibly could
>> clash, since windows is not really thread safe when it comes to
>> concurrent UI threads and object access.
>
> Ah, but because fibres run from within a single thread there is no
> concurrency and therefore no problem! That's the beauty of coroutines
> --- they allow you to decouple flow of execution from the stack,
> allowing you to have multiple stacks between which you shift as you
> desire. As it's all synchronous and explicit all the concurrency
> problems of threads just vanish.
>
> (This is, in fact, *exactly* the sort of problem that coroutines are
> for, and I wish I'd thought of them earlier. I was only reminded that
> Windows has decent coroutine support when I saw the section on fibres
> while reading up on the threading APIs...)
>
> In fact, it's all working beautifully now; the application has its own
> event loop in one fibre, and Windows has *its* own event loop in another
> fibre, and I simply pass control from one to the other whenever I need
> to send an (application) event. Very elegant and surprisingly easy.
>
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