Subj : Re: thread suspend using pthreads?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 12:47 pm


"David Hopwood" <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:BO8Se.1205$ix3.128@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

> It always amazes me, the extent to which people seem resigned to working
> around the same design flaws again and again in applications, rather
> than fixing (or even complaining about!) the underlying problems in the
> infrastructure.

    I totally disagree. In fact, the reality is quite the reverse. OSes keep 
working harder and harder to make brain-damaged applications work well. An 
application should reuse its threads and use thread pools. It should not 
expect to be able to quickly create large numbers of threads only to destroy 
them. I have seem to much cruft in the OSes that impair the performance of 
well-written programs where the justification is that it makes badly written 
programs perform better.

    DS

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