[vbox-dev] New event queue

[Andreas Löffler]

It does not make running the VM faster as such, so don't expect any
performance boosts with this change. However, there can be some 
situations which might exceed the OS-dependent entries-per-queue limit.

To more decouple processing own VBox events from the application's 
native event queue this new implementation was introduced.


On 07.10.2013 16:42, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> Why is this important? For running more VMs simultaneously or running
> one VM faster?
>
> On Oct 7, 2013 4:27 PM, "Andreas Löffler" <andreas.loeffler at oracle.com
> <mailto:andreas.loeffler at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     on some OSes (like Windows) the application's main event queue is
>     limited to hold up to a certain amount of events at once by default.
>
>     With the new event queue it's now possible to store (and thus
>     process) more events without the limitation mentioned above. And:
>     No, it shouldn't have any downsides really :-).
>
>     Hope this helps,
>     Andreas
>
>
>     On 07.10.2013 15:48, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>
>           From 4.3 BETA changelog:
>         • Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host’s
>         native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore
>
>         ... why is this important and what are the effects ? Any downsides ?
>
>
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