This is my last posting on this, take heart. The "threads" advocates have never specified any advantages of a program written using that model (multiple execution points in a single image) over a multiple process model, assuming that parallelism is useful.
If the purported advantage is access to shared data structures without explicit access mechanisms, let's say I strongly disagree that that is an advantage. It is a whole set of fatal bugs waiting to happen. Please enlighten me if there are any -other- qualities of this model which are supposed to be advantageous to the people paying for and using the programs. I count faster development as an advantage, increased maintenance (bugs) as a disadvantage. The second strongly outweighs the first. geoff steckel
