Re: Threads

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> Was just thinking,
> 
> How do you all feel about threads?

Threads are neat buggers, but tend to cause endless headaches to those not
intimately familiar with them.  They can be the source of intermittant or
unreproduceable bugs that cannot be found with a debugger.  Since this
is a project that will grow and be worked on by many people over its
lifetime (hopefully), I think that using threads is just asking for
trouble.

My advice would be to stay away from then unless absolutely necessary.  If
they are necessary, then make sure the piece running as a seperate thread
is isolated from the main code by a wall thick enough to stop a nuke.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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