Re: [Chicken-users] critical-section not in Chicken 3?

[Elf]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Ivan Raikov wrote:

> <snip>
>  It is quite frustrating that so many programmers choose to
> multithread their software when it is not necessary, and introduce all
> kinds of complications for themselves and their users. Just say no to
> threads.

fwiw, threads are not always avoidable.  i dont know if its the version 
currently in svn, but the raw-sockets egg created by bk2 and modified by
myself uses threads extensively (and SAFELY)... it would not be possible
to have equivalent functionality without threading, nor would the performance
requirements be attainable without threads.

that said, threads are still a nightmare :)  to get around the spaghetti-ing
and other nastinesses required several solid days of work, helper macros,
and very clearly defined areas.  not fun at all.

-elf