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["Torsten Hüter" <torstenhtr@xxxxxx>]

Chris:
>> With a proper implementation this should be indistinguishable from
>> coroutines, including to wx.

This is your opinion not mine, I'm not sure. Again, read the paragraph about secondary threads:
http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1/overview_thread.html

"[..] under Win32 a thread can only access GDI objects such as pens, brushes, device contexts created by itself and not by the other threads [..]"

One of the reasons why they strongly recommend "no secondary threads call GUI functions".

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However, if you can ensure that the coroutines never call GUI functions, threads should be a nice alternative. I remember Orson has written, that this should be possible. Maybe he can answer the question if this restriction is still acceptable. Then I could rescue my implementation from my backups.

Thanks,
Torsten