[mdlug] Dual Core with Hyper Threading

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Aaron Kulkis

> In general, threading is a hack for operating systems which have
> lousy performance on context-switches (*cough* windows *cough*).
> Just use parallel processes with shared memory..your life
> (and programs) will be MUCH simpler.

 I'm not *quite* so draconian about threads, but I agree they are very
easily misused:

 http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch07s03.html#id2923889

 Sincerely,

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