alt Hacker NewsI disagree with the premise. I cannot imagine a better latency experience than blocking loop IDEs like VS6.
Which inputs are getting latency? The keyboard? The files?
> the non blocking nature
I disagree with the premise. I cannot imagine a better latency experience than blocking loop IDEs like VS6.
Which inputs are getting latency? The keyboard? The files?
> the non blocking nature
Hate to break it to you but windows gui programming, emblemified by VS6, is about as far away from a blocking threaded model as you get. You literally have a UI event loop and any compute intensive work is meant to be offloaded to other threads via messages/COM. This is why when they failed to do that correctly the entire UI would lock up - because they didn’t have good hygiene around how to offload compute intensive operations that also interacted with the GUI.
You’ve literally argued against yourself without realizing.