Re: tlug: Thread Programming. I apologize in advance if this is off-topic !!!

[Fredric Fredricson <Fredric.Fredriksson@example.com>]

my 0.02$ advice:

If you are developing in Linux and you want to make some kind of 
server application I advice you to consider multi-process in favor 
of threads. 

I can see three major drawbacks for threads:
* A failed thread crashes the whole process, that is the whole
  application.
* Threads adds a lot of complexity to a C++ program since the
  thread support is built into the language like in Java. 
* It is difficult to debug and presents plenty of opportunity for
  mistakes.

Threads have two major advantages:
* Performance (in most OSes)
* Fun!

But if you use Linux the performance part is questionable. Windows
does not like processes and multiple processes cause a lot of
overhead. In Linux this is not really the case and most server 
applications I have seen (like Apache) uses multi-process.

The fun part is very subjective and difficult to consider if you
do this professionally.

/Fredric
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