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This is great, textbook example of handling events with additional thread, thanks.

The problem however, is that the 'processEvents' CAUSES new events to be generated, thus, without echo-filter 

while ($keepOnWatching) {
       if (ThisIsNotMyOwnEcho()) {# echo-filter
             processEvents();
       }
};

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this solution changes 1-cpu burning into multiple-cores burning program.

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Re^3: How to wait for events, and not lose any, while processing them ?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 27, 2009 at 09:32 UTC

    If you only describe half the problem, (less--how do you distinguish an "echo" from the "real thing"?), you only get half a solution. That said, the architecture stays the same.

    You either filter events before you queue them, or after you dequeue them, whichever is more convenient and timely.

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