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+1 In particular, I think Joel does have a point here. Yeah, so maybe he's exaggerating by saying it's impossible. But I would imagine that multi-threading i
by j_baker 17y ago
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In particular, I think Joel does have a point here. Yeah, so maybe he's exaggerating by saying it's impossible. But I would imagine that multi-threading in C (like most things in C) is really difficult. Especially compared to more modern languages that make it much easier.
- skwiddor 17y agoIt's only hard if you have the wrong primitives http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/thread http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/thread
- axod 17y agoIf programming was easy, everyone would do it.
- jganetsk 17y agoMultithreading is never easy. Even in Erlang, you have race conditions.