Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:13, Sturla Molden <stu...@molden.no> wrote:
I genuinely think the use of threads should be discouraged. It leads to
code that are full of bugs and difficult to maintain - race conditions,
deadlocks, and livelocks are common pitfalls.
The use of threads for load balancing should be discouraged, yes. That
is not what they are designed for. Threads are designed to allow
blocking processes to go on in the background without blocking the
main process. This, they are very useful for. Removing thread support
would therefore be a very big mistake. It's needed, it has it's uses,
just not the one *you* want.
That's an interesting assertion about what threads were designed for. Do
you have anything to back it up?
Michael
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