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From: David MENTRE <david.mentre@gmail.com>
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Feeding the OCaml GUI troll
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Hello,

2005/9/1, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>:
> I am. My idea is this: GET RID OF CALLBACKS.
> The idea is to use (user space) threads instead.

The main issue with threads is that as soon as you want to share
state/data between threads, it becomes a mess. Of course, you can have
some clean tools like OCaml channels in module Event, but they don't
avoid issues like deadlocks.

The callback and main event handler scheme as the advantage of
simplicity: your program does only one thing at a time.

Yours,
d.