threading

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com>:

> Half-assed support in current languages does not imply any necessary
> problem in the idea -- just in the mainstream implementations of it.
>
> Then looking it up I find Go's goroutines have the same issue.

the promise of threads is that you only need to consider a single event
out of any given state. Trouble is, in reality, you need ot consider a
multitude of events in every state. Threads are not good at presenting
that reality.


Marko