Introduction

• Threads:

  • Grew up in OS world (processes).
  • Evolved into user-level tool.
  • Proposed as solution for a variety of problems.
  • Every programmer should be a threads programmer?

• Problem: threads are very hard to program.

• Alternative: events.

• Claims:

  • For most purposes proposed for threads, events are better.
  • Threads should be used only when true CPU concurrency is needed.

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