Re: Race condition seems to be fixed

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 05/21/2012 03:53 AM, Jacob Dawid wrote:
> John,
>
> I don't know whether I found the best place for the callback, but
> practically it seems to work fine, very responsive and without any
> performance loss. I wouldn't spend to much time on thinking about problems
> that we don't have to face (yet).

With things as tricky as communicating data between apps where 
synchronization is important thinking things through from the beginning 
is imperative.  You'll get in a situation where you believe it takes 
just a fix for this then fixing this breaks that or the issue manifests 
in some other way.  And having put so much effort into a paradigm you'll 
be reluctant to toss it in exchange for what could have eventually 
worked out better.


> As for the name: We can change that also, but I didn't find a better one.
> Maybe "octave_loop_hook" or something similar?

How about something with the word "monitor" in it.  I gather the main 
application here is monitoring variables that may be changing during 
(what could be long) computations?

Dan