[Seaside] Re: Render loop... not looping

[Esteban A. Maringolo]

2005/11/8, Julian Fitzell <julian at beta4.com>:
> Esteban A. Maringolo wrote:
> > Julian Fitzell escribió:

> > And what is the purpose of the critical:ifError: method?
> > Why it uses a mutex and forks the evaluation of the block?
>
> It's designed to ensure that only one request is evaluating within a
> session at a time.  This is desirable because otherwise everything would
> need to be written to support concurrency.  In fact, given that we are
> reverting object instvars back and forth to handle continuations this is
> pretty important even at the system level.  As it stands, that semaphore
> ensures you only need to worry about concurrent access of resources that
> are accessed by more than one session (db, etc).

Thanks. I've imagined it to be that. What I didn't see is the side
effect of not having to deal with concurrency everywhere.

By now I'm using it without mutex nor semaphore until I find a
solution to make it work on Dolphin.

Any clues about why it doesn't render again?

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Esteban A. Maringolo
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