In computer science, the event loop (also known as message dispatcher, message loop, message pump, or run loop) is a programming construct or design pattern...
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Node.js (redirect from Node.js event loop)
November 8, 2009. Node.js combined Google's V8 JavaScript engine, an event loop, and a low-level I/O API. In January 2010, a package manager was introduced...
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is generally an event loop that listens for events and then triggers a callback function when one of those events is detected. Event-driven programs can...
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use of a switch within a loop is an inversion of control such as an event handler. In event handler loops, the sequence of events is not known at compile-time...
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system. Other key aspects include event loops, event queueing and prioritization, event sourcing, and complex event processing patterns. These mechanisms...
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Control flow (redirect from Program loop)
Infinite loops are used to assure a program segment loops forever or until an exceptional condition arises, such as an error. For instance, an event-driven...
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message queue, and are handled by its message loop. A message loop is one kind of event loop. A basic message loop appears as follows: int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE...
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language's concurrency model describes the event loop as non-blocking: program I/O is performed using events and callback functions. This means, for example...
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Inversion of control (section HTML DOM events)
only be concerned with the handling of events, while the event loop and dispatch of events/messages is handled by the framework or the runtime environment...
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Carbon (API) (section Event handling)
Toolbox's Event Manager originally used a polling model for application design. The application's main event loop asks the Event Manager for an event using...
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Reactor pattern (category Events (computing))
pattern is an event handling strategy that can respond to many potential service requests concurrently. The pattern's key component is an event loop, running...
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Libuv (category Events (computing))
support for asynchronous I/O based on event loops. It supports epoll(4), kqueue(2), Windows IOCP, Solaris event ports and Linux io_uring. It is primarily...
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to refer to the concept of processing multiple input/output events from a single event loop, with system calls like poll and select (Unix). Multiple variable...
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Message queue (redirect from Event queue)
routine called getNextEvent() or similar in an event loop, and then calling the appropriate application routine to process that event. Advanced Message Queuing...
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memories from the previous loop. A time loop is also sometimes used to describe a scenario involving time travel where events form a circular chain of causality...
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Human-in-the-loop (HITL) is used in multiple contexts. It can be defined as a model requiring human interaction. HITL is associated with modeling and simulation...
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control of its own event loop. A common patch to fix this is to introduce a new function, called glutCheckLoop() (macOS) or glutMainLoopEvent() (FreeGLUT/OpenGLUT)...
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message-based computation with Java-like syntax. A concurrency model based on event loops and promises ensures that deadlock can never occur. The E language is...
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languages, such as JavaScript or Python, that feature a single-threaded event-loop in their runtime. This contrasts with cooperative multitasking in that...
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In the Loop is a 2009 British satirical black comedy film directed by Armando Iannucci. It is a spin-off from Iannucci's television series The Thick of...
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Libevent (category Events (computing))
replace the event loop found in event-driven network servers. An application can just call event_dispatch() and then add or remove events dynamically...
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Saturday Night's Main Event is a series of American professional wrestling television specials produced by WWE (originally the World Wrestling Federation...
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multitasking through microthreads (termed tasklets). Tcl has coroutines and an event loop The Erlang virtual machine has what might be called green processes –...
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FTP and HTTP clients and support DNS lookups. Network events are integrated with the event loop making it very easy to develop networked applications...
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implementing familiar program components such as cooperative tasks, exceptions, event loops, iterators, infinite lists and pipes. They have been described as "functions...
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Barkley Marathons (category Annual sporting events in the United States)
completed the 3 loop 'Fun Run' twice. In 2024, Paris became the first woman to complete all five loops within the time limit, finishing the event 99 seconds...
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Perl Object Environment (section The event layer)
into the kernel itself. These loop abstractions are designed after POE's standardized event loop bridge interface - POE::Loop. These can be mixed and matched...
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Computer programming portal Command pattern Continuation-passing style Event loop Event-driven programming Implicit invocation Inversion of control libsigc++...
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in an infinite loop, or just performing a lengthy operation and ignoring events. Each application has an event queue that receives events from the operating...
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Kqueue (category Events (computing))
filters as well as receive pending events while using only a single system call to kevent(2) per main event loop iteration. This contrasts with older...
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