[DGD] Rewriting the main loop

Schmidt, Stephen schmidsj at union.edu
Sun Dec 2 02:37:08 CET 2018


On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 8:28 PM Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> As for the reason:
>
> It is my personal opinion that DGD should be as responsive as possible, and
> it should place human interaction before internal timing from callouts.
>
> This implies pushing background work like swapping and garbage collection
> to the, well, background.
>

I'm not sure I understand the distinction here. Won't it often, perhaps
generally, be the case that the callouts are part of the human interaction?
Obviously this is application-dependent, but in the kinds of applications I
used to do, most callouts originated in some kind of command handling.

Steve



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