Windows 3.1 was single threaded. As I understand it, programs would hook into the event loop and be given a handle. While they held the handle, they could run their own code, but they were supposed to release it when they were finished to allow other running programs to use it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is quite a bit you can do without multiple threads. And just as a side note, I came up with an interesting idea today on how to emulate multiple threads in Flash. Just use more than one movie! Talk between the UI movie and the background worker movie with a LocalConnection object, and you're in business. No more UI lock. Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boon Chew Sent: December 3, 2005 8:24 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash is a single-threaded app? Maybe it's just theAVM? or... I have read in this forum that someone loosely coined the phrase "Flash is a single thread app", it's hard to imagine something as high performance and intricate as Flash to be a single-threaded app. So I started to take the above statement to mean that the Actionscript VM executes all the code in a sequential fashion but that Flash player itself is multithreaded, is that a right assumption? And what about code that are asynchronous in nature, such as sound playing ( new Sound(), onSoundComplete), server-side call return (such as LoadVars, XML.onLoad)? Are these all happening in the single thread of code execution? Looks like a book on Flash and AVM Internal would be nice. :) - boon --------------------------------- Yahoo! Personals Single? There's someone we'd like you to meet. Lots of someones, actually. Try Yahoo! Personals _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
