From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-07-24T03:21:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Of GUIs threads and scheduling woes


On Jul 23, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Glen Holcomb wrote:

> The observed behavior seems to be magnified/caused by minimizing the
> application.  Does anyone have any suggestions that could lead to a  
> more
> responsive app?  5+ minutes late wouldn't matter so much if it  
> didn't cause
> the thread to miss an event scheduled a minute or two after the one  
> that was
> late.  I suppose I could re-structure my code and may have to.  I  
> was just
> hoping that there is a way to get tolerable responsiveness out of a  
> thread.



this sounds alot like a process being put to sleep by windows and  
thereby causing all threads to sleep - is this on windows?

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