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On 2013-12-04 11:38, Michael Meeks wrote:
        Of course, an alternative might be to have a "GUI thread" that does
nothing but run a main-loop, never executing any code - such that we can
always safely yield, and/or create/destroy windows/GCs etc.



Wasn't the idea that

(a) we were going to gradually migrate to running everything on the same thread,

(b) except for the handful of places where parallelism is truly beneficial

(c) and for those parallel places, each parallel chunk would live in it's own little island, interacting as little as possible with the main thread.

??

Or am I merely projecting my own design ideas onto the past discussions :-)

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