a very newbie question about threading

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:59:04 -0600, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> chrispatton at gmail.com (Chris Patton) writes:
> 
>> I've recenently stumbled upon a concept known as "threading". Can
>> anyone tell me what this IS and how it is used, or show me where I can
>> get information about this?
> 
> Now that you know what they are - be warned that they tend to be a
> source of very hard to track down bugs. If you can avoid writing
> threaded code, do so. One common use of threads is to handle multiple
> IO streams at one time. Asyncore is a much saner solution to that
> problem.

For more threading criticism along those lines, see Eric Raymond's TAOUP:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch07s03.html#id2923889

/Jorgen

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