Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] A difficulty with Mac-Events.pm

[email protected] ((Kevin Reid)) Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:52:30 -0400
Newsgroups perl.macperl.toolbox
Organization Reid & Hoffman
Message-ID <1erfpse.1n77jsw1abg744M%[email protected]>
> The 'interleaving' trick might be useful more widely than just the 
> special case of a browser logging window so I hope this rather 
> overlong message might be of some general interest.

Indeed. For example, an accept() or other blocking I/O, when not running
under Mac::Events, will hog the CPU, though not completely. Using
'interleaving', as you call it, allows the application to give up more
time to other applications.

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