multithreading

[Aahz]

In article <87sn4n6gz9.fsf at kursk.kassube.de>,
Nils Kassube  <nika at kassube.de> wrote:
>"Rob Hall" <bloke at ii dot net> writes:
>>
>> Can anyone point me to a useful tutorial on multithreading?
>
>One advice: Avoid multithreading like the plague. 
>
>Multithreading is a very big stability risk if you don't know exactly
>what you are doing, i.e. most programmers most of the time.

Depends what you're trying to do.  If you're trying to create a
multi-threaded spider, that's pretty close to dead-simple, particularly
if you pay attention to my tutorial slides.  GUIs can be a bit more
difficult, but using Queue takes care of most problems.
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