[concurrency] Threads are good

[Aahz]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011, Peter Fein wrote:
>
> Should we just establish "Threads: you're doing it wrong" as a ground
> rule and be done with it? ;-P

No.  I know you're trolling and trying to be humorous about it, so I'll
respond seriously:

One case where a thread is the perfect mechanism is when you want to
poll for a particular condition periodically.  For example, if you're
synchronizing files between machines, but you don't want to sync open
files, you put the open files into a list that a thread monitors.
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