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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> People with a fear of threaded programming almost certainly never grew
> up on OS/2. :) I learned about GUI programming thus: Write your
> synchronous message handler to guarantee that it will return in an
> absolute maximum of 0.1s, preferably a lot less. If you have any sort
> of heavy processing to do, spin off a thread. It was simply the normal
> way to do things. 

That is still the best way to do it, IMHO. 

As I recall, on BeOS the operating system would even spawn a new thread to
handle each GUI event. Pervasive multithreading is great for creating
responsive user interfaces and running multimedia.

Sturla