multithreading

[Jacob Hallen]

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.

I plan to hold a useful tutorial at the Europython Conference.

When you know some basic facts about the Threading module and know
a few standard idioms for threads, they can be very useful and not
error prone at all. However, they do require very much discipline of
the user all of the time.

Jacob Hallén


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