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nickjackson · 2014-05-13 22:38:53+00:00

But then you get into a whole heap of problems with multiple threads.

eru | karma 30335 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2011-12-23 18:02:29+00:00

And nowadays you can throw in multithreading problems into the mix.

monksy | karma 4557 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2020-05-13 02:20:17+00:00

It's all fun and games until you start dealing with C++ thread issues.

UI_at_80x24 | karma 2957 | avg karma 4.17 · | 2023-09-07 13:11:44

Which is why you break the task into multiple threads.

kashif | karma 846 | avg karma 1.68 · | 2008-06-02 18:08:53+00:00

Threads are evil at the application level - IMHO.

chiffonade | karma 254 | avg karma 1.51 · | 2009-04-06 14:42:28

> writing applications which are multi-threaded

Well that's your problem right there.

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marcosdumay | karma 27273 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2017-11-12 13:45:17

Everybody solves that by having multiple threads (either at the OS or runtime level), so you can run in parallel the stuff that don't conflict with each other.

snissn | karma 1291 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2017-05-26 15:10:04+00:00

You can have 2) with the additional complexity / upside of multiple threads

dnautics | karma 17907 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2015-11-02 18:37:01+00:00

Right but that's the developer's fault for not understanding how to do multithreading correctly.

papito | karma 3157 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2020-06-12 15:37:40

Except that multi-threaded applications are inherently more complex and are extremely challenging to debug.

MiroF | karma 3182 | avg karma 2.12 · | 2020-08-03 17:09:43+00:00

Multithread is not as easy as you think for a legacy application this big.

seanwilson | karma 7815 | avg karma 2.69 · | 2017-08-31 10:56:09

I agree strongly with this. Multithreaded code is super hard to understand and super error-prone when you're dealing with threads and locks yourself.

visualR | karma 126 | avg karma 1.26 · | 2014-04-28 15:59:40+00:00

The problem with this is you only get 1 thread for the UI and other stuff to run on.

bojo | karma 1666 | avg karma 4.6 · | 2017-05-31 08:35:55+00:00

Depending on your problem you can actually lose performance with a multi-threaded app due to the context switching overhead.

bartwe | karma 458 | avg karma 2.07 · | 2017-11-14 11:35:40

Multi threading brings in all kinds of security issues

porsager | karma 1265 | avg karma 4.38 · | 2023-05-21 06:05:35

Multi-threading is easy it's synchronization that's hard.

brianwawok | karma 11149 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2020-06-14 02:23:02

Multi-threading is only hard if you share state. Keep state separate and life is good.

pizlonator | karma 4077 | avg karma 4.97 · | 2017-08-30 21:01:22+00:00

You can implement that on top of threads.

jtsiskin | karma 1440 | avg karma 2.22 · | 2021-01-21 17:45:38+00:00

That depends on if developers can be convinced to actually use multiple threads...

CodeWriter23 | karma 3631 | avg karma 1.43 · | 2024-06-03 17:13:30

Yep. Multithreaded coding is hard.