Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:46:52 +0300 From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> To: "Chris Knight" <chris@e-easy.com.au>, "'Kai Mosebach'" <kai.mosebach@freshx.de>, <freebsd-threads@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LinuxThreads replacement Message-ID: <004d01c348ae$583084f0$812a40c1@PETEX31> References: <007601c3467b$5f20e960$020aa8c0@aims.private>
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> get up to speed with thread implementations. Is it just me, or > are threads just a complete evil, which very few people > understand correctly and are able to implement and/or use them > correctly? > Threads are harder to understand and debug. Once you get to think in threads it actually helps productivity and creates simpler programs because you can create a thread for a task instead of going trough dozens of condition statements every time you return from a select or similar. Other such advantages exist. Also, since future CPUs and systems are likely to have more parallel execution units, threaded programs are ready to take advantage of such beasts if your memory coherency protocol does not eat up your performance. Pete
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