On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:57:33AM +0100, ossi@mail.kde.org wrote:

> a) this is not necessarily true. some languages/toolkits/oses don't
>    even provide (useful, that is complete) async i/o, so the use of
>    threads is the only solution.
>    also, its surely a question of preference (some like to go the hard way,
>    you know :).

This is a fairly grand assumption.  Out here pthreads (by default) are
implemented in userspace - stuff blocks for disk access... so you'd still
end up with a blocking UI to some extent.

- alex