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On 10/1/2024 7:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/1/2024 8:16 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2024-09-30, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 9/30/2024 9:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:48:53 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> The world is moving from forking processes to starting threads.
>>>>
>>>> That was tried in the 1990s -- threads for everything, even 
>>>> multithreaded
>>>> GUIs. It was soon discovered that was not a great idea.
>>>
>>> Practically all GUI's are multi-threaded.
>>>
>>
>> No. The GUIs I know of (GTK, Android, etc) are all single threaded and 
>> any
>> other threads which need to use the GUI need to queue a request on the 
>> GUI
>> thread.

> I am used to Java Swing and .NET WinForms where event thread is not
> main thread.
> 
> But I guess it sort of makes sense to combine them. Main thread
> usually doesn't do anything after kicking of the GUI stuff.
> 
> But any time one need to do anything time consuming in the GUI
> then it needs to be done in its own thread but GUI updates
> need to be done by the GUI thread.

But I assume that the typical GTK application does use many threads.

If I look at Windows GUI applications that also runs on Linux then I see:

FireFox (just 1 tab open) - 96 threads
ThunderBird - 72 threads
LibreOffice - 22 threads

Is it different on Linux?

Arne