[Tutor] Threading...

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Mon Apr 27 12:39:42 CEST 2009


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:46 AM, A.T.Hofkamp <a.t.hofkamp at tue.nl> wrote:
> you are making
> a IO-bound app, so threading doesn't buy you anything in performance and
> gives a big headache in data protection

Please explain. Presumably the single-threaded app is not IO-bound.
Adding threads can push it to the point of being IO-bound. The
requirements for communicating between threads in this app are modest
and not likely to cause a big headache.

Kent


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