Author: Simon Walter Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Wirth's law
On 07/23/2016 05:42 PM, Didier Kryn wrote: > 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.
Really? I must be pretty stupid because I have think extra hard when
using mutexes... :(