Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Threads Question | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 1997 15:42:38 +0100 (BST) |
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> >From the BeOS demo I saw, I gathered that BeOS has one thread per top > level frame window, not for every window whatsoever in the strict > sense. But I may have misunderstood, there was, sadly, more hype than
That would make a lot of sense. Thats not far from X windows, except that multiwindow X11 applications tend to be a single task. Having a thread running the UI and a thread doing the thinking is a fine example of why GUI apps benefit from threads in things like smoothness of response
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