[Lazarus] Threads and Libraries (dll and so)

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Feb 4 19:25:43 CET 2014


Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

>>> But this does not enable you to process the *information* displayed 
>>> at such a speed.
>> As stated in my last mail the USAF and their pilots do not share your 
>> opinion.
> 
> Please... These people are primed for this kind of thing.

But the general discussion didn't say that the user of [whatever it was 
we were talking about] wasn't similarly primed.

> I'm assuming that the purpose of displaying 20 videos simultaneously is 
> so people can react on it, not simply to induce epilepsy attacks. Hence 
> my conclusion that 10FPS is ample for a GUI - take even 24 FPS if you 
> prefer.
> 
> The point was simply that this relatively low speed does not warrant 
> thread-aware GUIs.

I agree with that conclusion, but primarily on account of the known 
implementation problems.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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