Async Event Threads

Is it possible to fork a thread from and asynchronous event loop and have it renable the originating event. Essentially pushing a cpu bound operation into something which has its share of the cpu and passes data back?

yes

no

maybe ?

so

Japan

well...?

>>7

some like this could do:



typedef union {
  HaxAniiEvent hax,
  FindAniiEvent find
} Event;

Event event;
while(getNextEvent(&event)) {
  switch(event.type) {
    case HAX_ANII:
      spawn_thread(haxAniiWorkerFunction, event.hax.targetAniiList);
      break;
    case FIND_ANII:
      spawn_thread(anusSearchingFunction, event.find.aniiSearchArea);
      break;
    default:
      assert(0);
  }
}

typo:

>>8


typedef union {
  int type;
  HaxAniiEvent hax,
  FindAniiEvent find
} Event;

sorry.

>>9
That wouldn't work, you can't have both Event.type and (Event.hax or Event.find) at once.
You have to wrap the Event in a struct or have the type external.

>>10

yeah, the HaxAniiEvent and FindAniiEvent structures would need to have an int type for their very first field, and it would need to be set to HAX_ANII or FIND_ANII depending on what getNextEvent decided to fill into the Event union. I was borrowing from how htey do events in X windows.