Chris Dolan schreef: > Dr.Ruud: >> Gabor Szabo: >>> I guess we can implement everything with fork but I think - >>> maybe because of my lack of experience in threads - that it will >>> be better to use them than to fork. >> >> I think it was Randal Schwartz who said something like: If the answer >> involves threads, then the question was wrong. > > Most likely that quote comes from a year when multi-processor systems > were not ubiquitous.
I remember it in a context of choosing between forks and threads. > Every UI framework I've ever used was indeed written with a single- > threaded event loop, but even in an editor it sure is handy to have > background threads to do asynchronous work (syntax checking, > rebuilding call graphs, Perl::Critic, etc) without having to > explicitly chunk the work or coordinate multiple processes. C<use forks;> :) -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger."
