[Baypiggies] asynch design

[Aahz]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
>
> I'll add that threads are generally less portable, much harder to debug,  
> (debuggers never work quite right), much harder to test, (those silly  
> nondeterminisms!), and that it's just as easy to architect an event  
> framework around asynchronous I/O which is just as intuitive as a  
> threaded model.  (I'm doing this now for a python project).

Beware of trying to define what is "intuitive" for anyone other than
yourself.  I've tried to wrap my head around event frameworks and I find
it way more difficult than threads, particularly if you design threads
around a message-passing architecture.
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