Why threads are a bad idea (for most purposes) - Ousterhout 1995 Today is part 2 of 5 in a week dedicated to threads and events. Yesterday we saw the argument from Lauer and Needham that thread-based and event-based models are equivalent (duals). Despite that, Oustehout would have you believe that threads are a bad … Continue reading Why threads are a bad idea

On the Duality of Operating System Structures - Lauer and Needham, 1978 The pendulum currently says "threads and locks are bad, events are good." Vigourous defences are mounted in favour of one system over the other, and manifestos are written. Nowadays this debate rages over the best way to build applications and frameworks, but it … Continue reading On the duality of operating system structures