Re: glib: processing events in multiple threads

[jcupitt gmail com]

On 30 April 2013 12:26, richard boaz <ivor boaz gmail com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > I've heard from quite a few people in particular in the GNOME camp who
> > believe that everything should be asynchronous and that multithreading
> > is evil.
>
> i don't know who these GNOME people are (very short?), but going with
> "multi-threading is evil" is an unbelievable statement: i'm gobsmacked.

I think they mean "multithreaded GUIs are evil", which is surely
correct. Keep the GUI as a single-threaded async thing, it's much,
much simpler and safer.

Multithreaded media libraries and so on are very good idea (as you say).

John