A different way to handle pulse timing

[Richard Bair]

> I now see the picture.
> 
> As I wrote in the previous email, it seems that we currently are not blocked waiting for vsync(), at least on Windows with D3D pipeline. Anyway, even if we "fix" that, what you propose is that sometimes both threads will be blocked (the render thread waiting for vsync, the event thread waiting for the render thread), which doesn't sound perfect.

Right. That stinks.

> Note that on Windows and Mac OS X, input events and application runnables are handled differently at the native level (either using different mechanisms, or having different priorities). To implement this proposal, we'll need to eliminate the difference, which may be a difficult task.

Are the application runnables at a higher or lower priority than input events?