From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T03:09:22+09:00
Subject: Re: need for threads

On 2/21/06, tony summerfelt <snowzone5@hotmail.com> wrote:
> a discussion of tcl threads came up in that newsgroup.
>
> one of the posts stopped me cold. the msg boiled down to:
>
> on a single non-ht cpu if your program can't do soemthnig while
> waiting on a resource there's no real need for threaded code.
>
> threading will actually slow down your program overall.
>
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1
> telnet://ventedspleen.dyndns.org
>
>

This is accurate, of course threads _may_ simplify your design, which
is a virtue as well.

pth