Re: Threads Question
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 26 Apr 1997 15:42:38 +0100 (BST)
> >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