[Live-devel] Design choice

[Warren Young]

On 7/27/2012 5:07 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>
> I'm
> puzzled by why so many programmers these days seem afraid (or unaware)
> to do this.

I think it's a legacy of 1990s Windows and Mac OS: poor IPC, poor 
process management, etc.  But they had threads, which avoids the need 
for either.

Now we've got a generation of programmers who didn't face the opposite 
problem: bad or missing thread implementations, but excellent IPC and 
process management, which encourages cooperative multi-process 
agglomerations.

Tim, I recommend you read any book by W. Richard Stevens, and this: 
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf

tl;dr on the latter: threads are mathematically proven to be evil.