Re: Dealing with multi-processor or multi-core

[Seth Willits <seth at freaksw dot com>]

On May 30, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Joe Strout wrote:

>> A lot of messages on this list claimed about the fact that RB does
>> not use more than one processor (or one core) at a time. it is
>> incredible and unacceptable !!
>
> Get over it.  Preemptive multitasking is, in general, very bad mojo.
> If you access ANY functions that are not thread-safe .... then
> your program will have obscure bugs that will crop up in
> odd circumstances after your software is released.

And yet all those developers (including myself) are able to work  
within the limitations fine.

My interpretation of this answer totally boiled down to "you're too  
naiive to understand how bad threads are." Arguing that for 99% of the  
REALbasic's customers the cooperative model is just fine, or that it's  
simply too big of a time and cost tradeoff to make the core  
foundations of the framework thread-safe, is one thing, but to say  
"it's too hard and you're going to fail" is rather silly.

Just because they're not trivial to use seems like a poor argument to  
not have them.


Just my two cents,

--
Seth Willits




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