On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:27:00AM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:27:18AM +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > - Netrek is not a place in which we should demonstrate our coding > > prowess for an examiner. We're not a training ground. > So leave it as is than. Just as many people misunderstand event loops > as misunderstand threading. Another major benefit of the current model, is that it is quite easy to write new programs (chkplayers, xsg, xtkill, ...) and plug them in. Such would be quite a deal more difficult with either threaded code, or an event driven system, unless the memory was left as shared memory. mark -- mark at mielke.cc/markm at ncf.ca/markm at nortelnetworks.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/