> On Oct 19, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Amber Hawkie Brown <hawk...@atleastfornow.net>
> wrote:
>
> One thing that I have still not figured out is how Futures (which are tightly
> tied to an event loop) will possibly ever work over multiple event loops. I
> think since you can't really chain them, this is less of a problem, but
> Deferreds like to absorb other Deferreds and make one big one, which would
> make the tight coupling problematic if you wanted to use two event loops
> (like, say, a GTK one and an IOCP one on Windows).
>
I've never seen this as a problem, because "multiple event loops" implicitly
means "multiple threads"; and you really kinda need to call back a Deferred on
the same event loop where it was originated. When would you want to do this?
-glyph
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