Hello,

Threads: use them, but don't abuse them
Threads don't kill programs, programmers do ;-)

Martin

D. Richard Hipp wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Jens Miltner wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just upgraded to sqlite 3.6.10 and keep getting a segmentation
>> violation when running the full tests on Mac OS X:
>> The last test completed is consistently thread001.1.3.
>>
>>     
>
> This was a problem in the testing logic, not in the SQLite library  
> itself.  The test logic was trying to run a threading test with some  
> of the mutexes disabled.  Everything works correctly once mutexes are  
> enabled properly.
>
> Of course, I wasted 4 hours tracking the problem down.....  This is  
> yet another episode that demonstrates how threads are a pernicious  
> evil that should be studiously avoided in any program that you  
> actually want to work.  Threads cause hard-to-trace bugs.  Threads  
> result in non-deterministic behavior.  Threads make programs run  
> slower.  Just say "No" to threads...
>
> D. Richard Hipp
> d...@hwaci.com
>
>
>
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