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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: boolean while loops "how to stop" and "make room for textout to textarea"
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:18:50 +0100
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Arno Welzel:

> Julio Di Egidio:
> 
>> On Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:35:06 UTC+1, Arno Welzel  wrote:
>>> John G Harris fantasised:
>> <snip>
>>>> That is, a forever loop is guaranteed to be paused from time to time
>>>> without that being requested by the thread code.
>>>
>>> No, a forever loop will block the current thread and a JavaScript
>>> executes a script in the browser only in one single thread.
>>
>> JS executes in one thread everywhere (Node, JS.NET, etc.), not just
>> in the browser: event-driven is its very *runtime model*.
> 
> So what? I did say that is is *only* in a browser this way.

Correction: I did *not* say that is is *only* in a browser this way.

(Wanted to write "Did I say... ?" but then forgot to correct the
sentence before sending the post).




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Arno Welzel
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