Subject: Re: spelling and threads
From: Eric W. Sink (eric@sourcegear.com)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 14:00:22 CDT
The use of OS threads would simply increase the challenges in
delivering a cross-platform app.
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From: "WJCarpenter" <bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG>
To: "AbiWord Mailing List" <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 1:48 PM
Subject: spelling and threads
> Speaking of spell-checking, something I have wondered for some time is
> why the background spell-checking is done via a timer firing instead
> of using multi-threading. I used to think it was because someone
> thought there would be all these thread-safety problems that wouldn't
> crop up with an async timer, but I guess recent explorations of
> structures-in-transit during timer firings have pretty much washed
> away that advantage. The obvious advantage of using a thread to do
> background stuff is that more of it can be done when the user is
> sipping coffee instead of typing (the thread will do lots of work
> when other parts of Abi are idle). As it stands with the timer stuff,
> a given quanta of work is done for every timer firing, no matter what
> else is going on. It can take a long time to get through a long
> document that way.
>
> So, what is the consensus-of-experts, silverbacks, and graybeards
> about the use of threading in Abi? Are there platform problems?
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