[Info-vax] Volatile, was: Re: yet another sys$qiow question

[JF Mezei]

On 15-08-28 09:53, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> As for why?  Maybe lack of time, knowledge, staff, money or interest?   

When I dabbed in X, I found the need for a totally different programming
paradigm because of the "event loop" which is forced on me. Would have
much prefered if X events were delivered as ASTs.

And when discussing with people who deal in real time, they are all
adament that it must all be an event loop, no ASTs allowed. So while I
never had to do this, I think it is possible that some types of apps
might actually do need to poll the IOSB as part of their real time event
loop. (if it is more efficient than checking event flags).