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Your comment implies that the presentation says you shouldn't use thread. But that's not what it says. The conclusion is that you should only use threads when y
by winstonewert 9y ago
Your comment implies that the presentation says you shouldn't use thread. But that's not what it says. The conclusion is that you should only use threads when you are actually trying to achieve cpu concurrency.
- notacoward 9y ago"Only" In the context of that time, "only when you're trying to achieve CPU concurrency" was meant as "only if you're doing something exotic" (though it wasn't as exotic as Osterhout thought - I'd already been working on MP machines for years). In the context of this time, it means "only" in an extremely common case. The difference matters. People who read the presentation without putting it in historical context will be misled, even if Osterhout weasel-worded his conclusions because he kind of knew he was wrong already.