Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Threads in RubyCocoa

[Matias P. B. <mat...@gm...>]

Thanks ...



On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Eloy Duran <e....@su...> wrote:

> Hi Matias,
>
> I would suggest first looking at classes in cocoa which most of the
> times do things like firing notifications
> which are much easier to work with that threads. For instance
> NSURLRequest.
>
> Eloy
>
>
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 1:25 AM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>
> > Hi Matias,
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Matias Pablo Brutti
> > <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> >> Hi ,
> >>
> >> I've read that rubycocoa has some issues with threads , NSThreads,
> >> which
> >> will be the best approach to take to actually use threads?, which
> >> type of
> >> threads should I use and finally is there an example or doc on
> >> rubycocoa
> >> threads that you recommend ?,
> >>
> >> I'm implementing an application that makes lots of requests which
> >> takes some
> >> time. My idea is to thread that process and while I receiving he
> >> info update
> >> the TableView, all this while not frezzing my main application but
> >> without
> >> threads I do not see how to do that. any ideas ?
> >>
> >
> > The current version of Ruby (1.8) not being thread-safe, it is
> > currently impossible to use NSThreads. Well you can, but RubyCocoa
> > will route calls into the main thread for you (to avoid crashing), and
> > it might cause a deadlock sometimes.
> >
> > The preferable way is to use Ruby threads instead. In Leopard, both
> > the interpreter and RubyCocoa were modified to support calling
> > Objective-C from Ruby threads. But this support is not ideal (you can
> > see that as a hack), and sometimes it doesn't work.
> >
> > You can also use NSTimers or any other mechanism driven by the Cocoa
> > runloop.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Laurent
> >
> >
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