On May 30, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Seth Willits wrote:
>> 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.
I would submit that many developers believe they're working within
those limitations fine, but in 99% of cases, that just means they have
not yet stumbled across the land mines in their code. Or, they're
using it only for very simple number-crunching type stuff, where it is
indeed practical to write fully thread-safe code -- but this is not
the sort of code most RB users have in mind when they start
complaining about RB's cooperative threads.
Best,
- Joe
--
Joe Strout
Inspiring Applications, Inc.
http://www.InspiringApps.com
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