Multi-threading
Stu has been doing lots of threading recently and seems to be having lots of fun. I makes me want to incorporate threading in the programs I'm working on at the moment!
It appears that there is one big advantage and one big disadvantage:
Advantage: you can avoid explicit state machines - sometimes essential with other peoples code you have no control of (e.g. OS calls, library calls, etc that just lock until completed). This simplifies your code immensely. It can make a complex program several simple programs.
Disadvantage: Mistakes in the threading design or programming are horrible to debug and can cause almost random behaviour that can be impossible to debug and track down.
Comments?
It appears that there is one big advantage and one big disadvantage:
Advantage: you can avoid explicit state machines - sometimes essential with other peoples code you have no control of (e.g. OS calls, library calls, etc that just lock until completed). This simplifies your code immensely. It can make a complex program several simple programs.
Disadvantage: Mistakes in the threading design or programming are horrible to debug and can cause almost random behaviour that can be impossible to debug and track down.
Comments?
posted by RobZed at 11:59 am
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home