On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:18 pm, Lex Spoon wrote:
> PS -- people who have been here very long, know that I truly think
> you should get rid of the threads altogether!  You really need tool
> support to do it better than a single-threaded support. 

Hey, I made a Process Browser... what more do you want? <g>

> The
> initial extra complexity from the single-threaded version, is
> usually dwarfed by the complexities of synchronizing multiple
> threads.

Strict message passing semantics helps. I agree that semaphores and 
shared variables are tricky. As long as you don't have to share 
resources, each thread can live in its own world.

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