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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Application Framework
- Message-ID: <37209@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 02:44:56 GMT
- References: <68764@cup.portal.com> <heinz.04d0@edohwg.adsp.sub.org> <1992Nov11.165127.6906@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 34
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- dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas) writes:
- >#define HIT_CMDRE_OVER_THE_HEAD_WITH_A_BRICK_MODE ON
- >Wow!
- >Usecounts!
- >What will we think of next?
-
- >Wow, wouldn't it be nice if the main elements of all the system structures
- >was prefaced with a usecount?
- >
- >Golly.
- >
- >#end MARC_BARRET_USECOUNT_MODE
- >
- >Seriously, can we get rastports or layers to have this? It would help to
- >multi-thread my drawing apps on the window surfaces without keeping the
- >window-layer locked for the entire operation (can you say, AutoPoint jerky-
- >mode, I knew you could).
-
- Sure. Just send the time machine to 1200 Wilson Drive, and I'll be
- happy to add usecounts to all the system structures, even if I have to break
- into the Los Gatos offices. :-) It doesn't even have to be all that powerful,
- 8 years or so would do it.
-
- Seriously, in many ways our hands are tied by 7+ year old designs and
- the innumerable programs that would break if we changed them. I'd _love_ for
- all system structures to be abstract data types, fully opaque, or _at least_
- allocated only by system routines. Tain't so, though.
-
- --
- To be or not to be = 0xff
- -
- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
-