Re:Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (1995) [pdf]
by pvg on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:16PM
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The author is John Osterhout, a CS professor. He was working at Sunlabs at the time. It's not like some unknown lone voice from the bowels of Sun was 'trying to warn us'. Warn us about what, anyway?
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There was a hype wave about multithreading (hey BeOS) that started around 1995.
Re:Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (1995) [pdf]
by dnautics on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:08PM
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BeOS was pretty good, and now that i'm wiser in the tooth, they were basically implementing the Actor model, except since it was in C++, it was really hard to guarantee that the programmers wouldn't do stupid things with shared state.
Re:Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (1995) [pdf]
by Roboprog on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @11:33PM
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“Threads are a bad idea” I believe is the warning.
And Sun was busy rolling out a certain now popular language with threading baked in around 1995.
I’ve had to fix other people’s servlet thread crosstalk bugs a few times. Wish “modern” (???) web apps used a different architecture...