[maemo-developers] Fwd: Multithreaded program for N800..

[From: Martin Grimme]

Hi,

Just be careful with threads, because they're evil (TM) !  ;)
They are hard to debug, annoy users when deadlocking, and when done
wrongly, can have impact on performance.

My policy is to only use threads when absolutely necessary. In most
cases, nonblocking IO and timeout callbacks are fully sufficient, and
give more predictable and debuggable behavior. X and most UI-toolkits
aren't thread-safe anyway, so threading should never be used in GUI
parts.

Somebody (Richard Stallmann, IIRC) said, "threads are for people who
did not understand state-machines". He could be right on this part.

Just my 2 ¢...

Martin


2008/3/17, Markku Vire <markku.vire at movial.fi>:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Yes it does. Actually most applications that belong to OS2008 are
>  multithreaded. This is because they use gnome-vfs, which uses threads to
>  implement async file operations.
>
>  You can use GThread module from glib to write threaded applications.
>
>
>  -Markku-
>
>
>  nisha jain wrote:
>  > Does OS2008 supports multithreading?
>  > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  > From: nisha jain <jain61 at gmail.com>
>  > Date: Mar 15, 2008 12:51 PM
>  > Subject: Multithreaded program for N800..
>  > To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
>  >
>  > Hi All,
>  >
>  > I have a requierement I need to do serial communication in background and do
>  > processing
>  > simultaneously. I can do it if i have multithreaded enviornment. Please let
>  > me know if any
>  > one has used multithreaded application for N800? Does here pthreads of c can
>  > work?
>  >
>  > Let me know if i can plug some c code to acheive it? Also i know N800 has
>  > the ARM  330Hz
>  > processor which can support such enviornment.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Nisha
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
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