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Re: [Chicken-users] thread scheduling: how about an idle-thread-hook?
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felix |
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Re: [Chicken-users] thread scheduling: how about an idle-thread-hook? |
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Fri, 9 Aug 2002 22:21:47 +0200 |
>I'm going to have to agree with Perry here too, threaded programming
>has its place, but event driven programming off of a select is a widely
>practiced method(so are things like non-blocking connects, etc). Also,
>threads are very hard to debug and I don't know about the debugging
>capabilities of chicken yet(what kind of a debugger does it have? gdb? Not
>a good answer... ;) )
It had a debugger, but the integration wasn't too good, and the instrumented
code was *huge*. So it's gdb, currently.
>Don't get me wrong, threading is ok and needed for a lot of things,
>but it isn't a magic bullet.
No it isn't. But multithreading is mightly in fashion these days.
cheers,
felix