SolarMutex: please educate me

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 05/15/2013 12:54 PM, Noel Grandin wrote:
> On 2013-05-15 12:09, Caolán McNamara wrote:
>> Yeah, and I'm continually dithering as to where to put one for the
>> various writer mail merge wizard "oh my god its not locked" asserts.
>
> Instead of trying to get locking correct everywhere, perhaps we should
> be doing a Java-Swing style thing where we
> (a) do some work in the background
> (b) post the results to the main event thread to be executed there
> ??

Sure, as I already wrote: "all GUI frameworks have settled on 'confine 
relevant code to run in a single event-loop thread' instead" for a 
reason.  However, doing that change is an endeavor far from trivial...

Stephan