Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:18:59 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Which clearly marks you as a typical kernel-side developer :-) It never > ceases to amaze me how different a userland perspective can be from that of > people who live in kernel space.
I've been writing multiuser games since 1987. I'm not just a kernel hacker
> But that foregoes the point that the code is far more complex and harder to > make 'obviously correct', a concept that *does* translate well to userspace.
There I disagree. Threads introduce parallelism that the majority of user space programmers have trouble getting right (not that C is helpful here).
A threaded program has a set of extremely complex hard to repeat timing based behaviour dependancies. An unthreaded app almost always does the same thing on the same input. From a verification and coverage point of view that is incredibly important.
Alan
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