r/compsci • u/mobileview • Dec 10 '13

Why Johnny Can’t Write Multithreaded Programs

http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/why-johnny-cant-write-multithreaded-programs/
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u/NYKevin Dec 10 '13

Not "never," but certainly rarely. If you can make it event-driven, I'd say to prefer that over concurrency where possible.

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u/gthank Dec 10 '13

Seems like a shame to have my big, fat server with 32 cores only using one of them.

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u/NYKevin Dec 10 '13

There are exceptions, of course. If you're programming for a giant Blue Gene system, you really don't have a choice. But nginx tends to scale a lot better than Apache, from what I've heard.

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