From: wsdngtmp@... (Sascha Doerdelmann)
Date: 2004-03-17T18:14:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ANN] wxRuby 0.2.1 has been released!

Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
> SR> I don't know much about gui programming, and nothing about wxWidgets.
> SR> Could you explain why native threads are so important?
> 
> They are important for programming but you are right, they are not
> very important for GUI programming. Most GUI Toolkits are not really
> multithread safe, some offer a few hooks, but they do this because
> they don't support fibers (cooperative threads like ruby).

Smalltalk dialects got around native threads in their GUIs for a very
long time. But Smalltalk GUIs are completely written in Smalltalk
which has it's own lightweight process model. Ruby uses GUI toolkits
written in C/C++. Those toolkits nearly always use nativ
multithreading, don't they?

Cheers
Sascha