>Here here. I find that threading typically introduces worse problems >than it purports to solve.
I recently worked on a software effort, arguably one of the most important software efforts in existence, in which individuals responsible for critical performance of the application threw arbitrarily large numbers of threads at a problem, on a multi processor machine, on a problem that was intrinsically IO-bound. The ease with which one can get into problems with threads (and these days, also with network comms) leads to many problems if the engineers aren't acquainted sufficiently with the theory. Don't get me started on the big clusterfucks I've seen evolve from CORBA... C// -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
