[Am-info] O/S 2 support - slightly off topic (my apologies)

[madodel@ptdprolog.net]

In <1016296740.550.13.camel@monster.omnifarious.org>, on 03/16/02 at 10:38
AM,
   "Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.org> said:



>Not to get too off-topic, but one of the biggest technical problems I see
>in Windows is its heavy reliance on threads.  In my experience using
>threads extensively leads to low quality programs that crash or hang
>constantly for inexplicable reasons.  Having to carefully coordinate
>access to internal program data structures among multiple
>non-deterministic control flows is very prone to error.

>I, personally, advocate almost any solution before threads are brought
>in.  They should be last resort for solving a problem.  So, I have little
>love or respect for an OS based on its built in multi-threading support. 
>:-)

If you are basing that solely on windoze experience, you are viewing it
under the worse possible light.  OS/2 users love our well threaded
operating system and apps.  Its one of the (many) things that OS/2 users
hate about windoze - how bad it does threading and how few windoze apps
are multi-threaded.  Run SMP on windoze NT and you barely get any
improvement unless you go to 4 CPUs as the operating system hogs the first
CPU and the multiprocessor logic has a large overhead, but on OS/2 all
apps benefit on a 2 CPU system, but multi-threaded apps benefit the most. 
The system is noticeably snappier and more responsive.  IBM sucks as a
corporate entity, but they can certainly program circles around m$ft.


Mark


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