What happens when event dispatches quicker as eventhandler can handle it?

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Hi.

For example:

You got an eventlistener for an object that can dispatches events in intervals of 0.2ms.
And if the eventhandler would need 0.5ms for his operation, what would happen? (listener and handler are in the same class).
Would the last event overwrite the event before?

In my case, I get some data from a xmlSocket, and I thought, that some datastrings can come in quicker than to work it off in my handler.

Thanks Martin