Hi,

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 Martin Konold wrote:
> >On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> >
> >> > Then do non blocking IO :-) Only async DNS is a problem ...
> >> 
> >> No. Non-blocking IO is a problem because it forces you to
> >> write state machines in a very ugly and unnatural way.
> >
> >Blocking IO us VERY ugly for the user. 
> 
> Only if it blocks the whole application. If it blocks one
> thread, the user doesn't care.

When using threads at university I considered debugging a pain.
Perhaps it is gdb or it is inherently bad, I dont know.

I only saw few situations where threads are really a big help.
Doing blocking IO without blocking the GUI and
especially the BeOS approach are one of the few cases where
I saw that threads helped more than they caused trouble with
deadlocks, concurrency etc.

Bye
Torben

> Bernd.
> 
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