threading

[Sturla Molden]

alister <alister.nospam.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
 
> As my only professional coding experience has been with embedded 8 bit 
> processors with limited resources i naturally abhorrent to the process of 
> "Just throw more RAM (Or any other resource for that matter)at it".

I understand. I do not advocate threads for parallel i/o on 8, 16 or 32 bit
systems – nor on 64 bit systems without sufficient RAM. But I do advocate
is that buying RAM is cheaper than buying developer time.

Sturla