Revolution speed sucks?

[Alex Rice]

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 10:01  PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> - Unless a lengthy operation also needs to process system messages, use
> "lock messages" before the operation and "unlock messages" when it's 
> done.

Richard, the Rev docs mentions "lock messages" but not in the context 
of optimization. I understand that by cutting out getprop/setprop 
calls, things could go faster. Anything else it does? Can you give an 
example of when it wouldn't be safe to use lock messages?

Thanks,

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com