Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 10-03-2012 16:28, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 04:23:43PM +0100, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 15:19:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> Since when is mouse movement a stop-the-world event on Linux?
>>
>> It's a hardware interrupt. They all work that way. You have
>> to give a lot of care to handling them very quickly and
>> not letting them stack up (lest the whole system freeze).
>
> Sure, but I've never seen a problem with that.
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A GC world stop is much more severe than a simple interrupt... This 
comparison is completely insane.

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- Alex