Re: [gtk-list] Re: multithreaded apps

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic srce hr>]

Bill Huey <billh@mag.ucsd.edu> writes:

> Uh, the BeOS folks would either laugh at you or burst neck vein if
> you said that to them.
> 
> That OS's GUI kit spawns a thread per window, which is quite
> astonishingly cool and impressive when one sees it running three
> billion things at once on the screen smoothly.

A thread per window?  But that's insane -- it would create hundreds of 
threads per application in no time.  Or do you mean "a thread per
top-level window"?