Any Questions about or Suggestions for the next release?

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:00:13 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    "...and add multithreading wherever things take more than 0.1 s to
>complete..."
>
>    I don't know about you, but from where I sit, that sounds like a reference
>that whenever things are going too slow, just throw threads at it and, hence,
>shorten the time it takes for the task to complete.

If the original author had specified _why_ things should be threaded,
it would have been better.  His reason was sound, it was presented
somewhat ambiguously.


JBB
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