[squeak-dev] Future examples (Re: Inbox: #future keyword for asynchronous message invocation)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Dec 17 22:15:44 UTC 2009


On 17.12.2009, at 22:28, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> Josh Gargus wrote:
>> Comments from others? 
> 
> I think people are probably not completely clear what kinds of simplifications future messages allow. I just found a great example to illustrate the difference: Dynamic scroll bar delays.

Nice. I want that :)

Do you have experience with using alternate main loops? Like, in a server where you might want to block the UI thread, we still might want to drain the future queue.

- Bert -





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