Developing Multithreaded Applications

[01Linux]

Neat article on MSDN, http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/multithreaded_netcf_apps.asp

[rabbit]

Code: [Select]

public class thing extends Thread
{
    public static void thing()
    {
        super("thing");
        // blarg
    }
}Java has had multi-thread simplicity for a LONG TIME.

[MyndFyre]

Yeah, threading in .NET is a cinch.

Of course in Java, you have to have a stupid extra worker class to support multithreading.  .NET supports function pointer (delegate) callbacks.    Far superior, especially when you consider that they're type-safe at compile time.

[Tuberload]

Yeah, threading in .NET is a cinch.

Of course in Java, you have to have a stupid extra worker class to support multithreading.  .NET supports function pointer (delegate) callbacks.    Far superior, especially when you consider that they're type-safe at compile time.

Yes far superior if you're interested in running a bloated windows application only. 

[Warrior]

Amen Tuberload, Amen.

[iago]

Incidentally, there is less overhead to spawning a child process on Linux (using fork()) than there is spawning a thread on Windows.  I wish I had a source for that, but it's in a book I read a little while ago.

On Linux, a lot of things (particularly daemons) will fork when they get a request.  The child process (which can share memory with its parent, in an efficient way) handles the request and the main process goes back to listening.