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On 2008-11-18, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On November 18, 2008, Peter Wang wrote:
> >
> > We'd only run the user's code in a new thread if it's actually
> > necessary. That means Mac OS X, where we already do that.
>
> Why not make it consistent? If allegro has to fire off a thread /anyhow/ might
> as well make it the same code.
I have no real objection to that, except that al_run() should be
optional where possible. On the platforms where it's optional, Allegro
needs to be prepared to spawn a thread for itself anyway. It'd probably
be simpler to *always* do that on those platforms.
Peter