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Auteur: Simon Walter
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Aan: Didier Kryn, dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Wirth's law
On 07/23/2016 06:01 PM, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 23/07/2016 10:49, Simon Walter a écrit :
>> 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... :(
>
>     Sorry if I hurted you. Maybe you thought hard to understand how to
> not dead-lock.

>


No worries. I am just trying to make a joke. As you can see, I am not so
funny. ;)