Tony Abernethy wrote: > Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: >> pe...@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes: >> >>> I would think that would be a fair question to ask the person who >> told >>> you PF is garbage because it is multithreaded: >> eh, "because it is *not* multithreaded:" >> > Now watch when application programmers use multithreaded stuff because > they think it will somehow solve all their problems.
I only find threads useful in GUI programming when there's a need to make the GUI seem responsive while other stuff is going on. That's about all the use I have ever gotten from threads although I'm sure some apps (video encoding, etc.) make heavy use of them since now everyone has 6-way cores, etc. Brad > If you ***CAN*** ***EVER*** make such a typo, do you really think > that they even stand a chance? > > Couple this with wrong-way branches on equal comparisons (edges), and > you do not even need to get into error-recovery stuff to find a mess.
