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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Wirth's law
Le 22/07/2016 18:21, Brian Nash a écrit :
> For example, when I discovered multithreading, all my programs used it
> in some way, even when it was unnecessary.


I sometimes use multithreading, but never mutexes. Mutex can be harmless
if there's only one. Otherwise better use select()/poll() or you'll
waste time or even dead-lock. It's amazing how the old select() paradigm
is so much better than the modern mutex. I see mutex as an invention to
relieve the programmer from thinking.

     Didier