Threads may be the most confusing way in existence to take advantage of multiple cores. Berkeley's Edward A. Lee has a lot to say about it in his paper "The Pr

Threads may be the most confusing way in existence to take advantage of multiple cores. Berkeley's Edward A. Lee has a lot to say about it in his paper "The Problem with Threads" ( http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.... ).