Re: [wxperl-users] alternatives to POE

[Eric W. <scr...@gm...>]

# from Foo JH
# on Monday 12 February 2007 11:21 pm:

>Not really. In my client-side app which takes significant time to
> comms with a server, during this time if the client where to simply
> alt-tab to and fro, the wxperl app does not refresh, and it really
> looks like it hung.

The connection can be asynchronous (at the socket level) without the 
Perl code needing to be threaded.

>It seems to me that everyone knows how bad threading is for Perl, and
>rather than openly admit it, we regress (again, another arguable
>position) into cooperative multitasking. IMHO not the right thnig to
> do.

I don't think there's any denial in play.  What do you propose?

--Eric
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