Re: threads vs. async. (was oaf async activation)

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> >> From what I have seen, async is even harder to work with (and
> >> definitely harder to get right!) than threads
> > 
> > Wow. We came to exactly the opposite conclusion. :-/
> 
> Who compared the two to come to this opposite conclusion? We got our
> conclusion mostly from the experiences of Pavel Cisler, who has worked on
> two major file managers with many similar features, one with threads
> (Tracker for BeOS) and one with an async. model (Nautilus for Gnome).

Of course, BeOS is a system designed from the bottom up to be thread
safe, which is not the case for most Unix systems.

Miguel.