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= Implementation details =
+== General: event priority for DoYield ==
+
+There are three types of events, with different priority:
+
+1. LO user events
+2. System events
+3. LO Scheduler event
+
+They should be processed according to the following code:
+
+bool DoYield( bool bWait, bool bAllCurrent )
+{
+ bool bWasEvent = ProcessUserEvents( bAllCurrent );
+ if ( !bAllCurrent && bWasEvent )
+ return true;
+ bWasEvent = ProcessSystemEvents( bAllCurrent, &bWasSchedulerEvent ) || bWasEvent;
+ if ( !bWasSchedulerEvent && IsSchedulerEvent() )
+ {
+ ProcessSchedulerEvent()
+ bWasEvent = true;
+ }
+ if ( !bWasEvent && bWait )
+ {
+ WaitForSystemEvents();
+ bWasEvent = true;
+ }
+ return bWasEvent;
+}
+
== General: main thread deferral ==
Currently for Mac and Windows, we run main thread deferrals by disabling the