Agreed, threads should be used only when true CPU concurrency is needed, and it is Too hard for most programmers to use (correctly). See John Ousterhout's prese

Agreed, threads should be used only when true CPU concurrency is needed, and it is Too hard for most programmers to use (correctly). See John Ousterhout's presentation: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~norm/508/2009W1/ouster95threadsbad.pdf http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~norm/508/2009W1/ouster95threadsbad.pdf