Re: revised mainEventLoop

I see what you are saying and you are correct as far as I can tell, this is
more efficient.  Don't you need a second while loop for external events
that gets called if enabled transitions is empty?

Chris



On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:10 AM, David Junger <tffy@free.fr> wrote:

> Le 8 mar 2013 à 17:32, chris nuernberger a écrit :
>
> > Furthermore you could have conditions in the datamodel which have
> changed thus enabling eventless transitions even though to an outside
> observer you are testing the same eventless transition set over and over
> again.
>
> The SC itself can't do anything while you're just dequeuing events from
> the internal queue. So any change to the datamodel (except for _event) will
> have to be done by the platform, which should know better than to allow
> them in the middle of an event loop. Or by side-effects in event
> conditions. But please let's assume the platform is safe enough and the
> authors aren't hacking with side-effects. That means the only thing
> changing in the whole SC, while dequeueing events as I suggested, is _event.
>
>                         David
>



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