From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-12-27T01:12:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk problem (Re: ANN: ruby 1.6.8)

On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 03:58:19PM +0900, nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp wrote:
> The current Tk.mainloop uses Tcl_DoOneEvent function with TCL_DONT_WAIT.
> So, if no event is waiting, Ruby can do thread switching quickly. 
> But if no other thread is running, the cost of Tcl_DoOneEvent loop may be
> unreasonable. 
> 
> Do you have any good idea for the problem? 

I think one solution is to use Tcl_SetNotifier to hook into Tcl's event
system.  You could then get Tcl to use rb_thread_select() instead of
select().

Paul