event-loop Archives

[Solved] ANSI C compatible event loop

October 10, 2022 by Kirat

You cannot have any strictly ANSI compatible event loop on Linux, because the purpose of an event loop is to multiplex cleverly several inputs; on Linux to do that multiplexing, you have to call some syscalls like poll(2), pselect(2) or friends, and all these syscalls are not standardized in ANSI C (or ISO C99, or … Read more

[Solved] Was the event loop model used in web browsers to control interaction between DOM events concomitantly developed by Brendan Eich with JavaScript?

September 24, 2022 by Kirat

The event loop predates javascript.. but just by a tiny bit. The event loop was introduced to support progressive download of pictures in Netscape. And almost immediately it was also used to support early rendering where DOM elements are displayed on screen before all images are downloaded. At the time, other browsers displayed blank white … Read more