Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)
Hi!
It's hard not to reply to this kind of message but there is so much "anti-thread hype" here that someone obviously has to stand up to it. This reply isn't aimed just at Larry but at all the anti-thread-rant people with 0 threads == 0 problems attitude.
Quoted 3 lines · Larry McVoy
"If you think you need threads then your processes are too fat" ``Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.''
Here are more from the same basket you obviously got the first quote from:
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Virtual memory is only for unskilled programmers who don't know how to use overlays.
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Protected memory is a constant 10% CPU hog needed only by undisciplined programmers who can't keep their memory writes in their own process space.
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Threads are a really bad idea.
I could *say* the same about Alans co-routines and Async IO :-). But it would be foolish of me to criticize something I haven't used.
There is more than one way how to skin a dinosaur. And threads are one way of doing it. You don't like it ? FINE. But don't go bashing it.
Probably most people bash threads becouse of a silly way POSIX designed (designed is an overstatement) their pthread API and becouse UNIX was around before threads thus probably making every UNIX thread support a hacked and not a designed tool.
Other OSes have certainly proven threads to be nice and usable.
And here is another one for you quotes page:
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If you can't stick your head out of your own backyard please... don't go and crtiticize the world... :-)
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best regards, Rok Papež.
Don't forget the linux-kernel favorite, "Debuggers are for bad programmers".
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} Virtual memory is only for unskilled programmers who don't know how to use } overlays.
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} Protected memory is a constant 10% CPU hog needed only by undisciplined } programmers who can't keep their memory writes in their own process space. } ------------------------------------