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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Swick)
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Subject: Re: Incremental Display of Widget Tree
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Date: 8 Aug 90 16:21:28 GMT
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    The "guts" does the work and is orders of magnitude larger** (in any
    significant application).  Keeping the "guts" clean, comprehensible,
    and maintainable is what is most important in my mind.

I certainly don't disagree with this! :-)  Nor do I have any
argument with your general observations about work procs.  They're
a very simplistic attempt to ameliorate a problem whose proper
solution really needs lower-level OS suport.  (So let's get
better OS's :-)