Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 13:10:15 12/05/00
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On December 05, 2000 at 12:37:02, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On December 05, 2000 at 10:28:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>this is not nonsense. blocking is GARANTUEED by windows. >>See the microsoft documents on it. they GARANTUEE blocking to >>prevent parallel problems. > >Are you telling me that if I get a mouse button click message from Windows, and >do something outrageously expensive before returning from that message, that my >engine threads will block until I return? > >bruce I don't think so, however under windows only main thread should do GUI access (drawing, dispatching input). This is because many functions in windows kernel determines tasks by esp of the caller and it would be confused when called from some other, then main thread. -Andrew-
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