Re: exported.writes inside a hook threadlock?

will guaraldi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.games.mud.client.lyntin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Eugene wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:28:27 -0500 (CDT)
>   will guaraldi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >The serialization is fine--it's the order that's the issue.  If I was a
> >user, I'd want to see things happening when they were happening, not
> >get a notification long after the fact.
>
> I'm not sure I got it right, but if we change all the direct spamming to
> scheduling, it going to be scheduled (and processed later) exactly in
> the same order as if it was spammed otherwise, isn't it?
>
> 1. UserEvent: action is added, SpamEvent1 is scheduled.
> 2. MudEvent: SpamEvent2 is scheduled.
> 3. SpamEvent1 is processed, output is performed.
> 4. SpamEvent2 is processed, output is performed.
>
> It's more of theoretical interest, though.

Oh--oops.  You're right...  Mmm...  Yeah, we could change everything to an
OutputEvent.  How much bang for our buck would we get from that?  Do you
think it'd simplify anything?

Would it affect startup adversely?

/will


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