Threads and Events
September 29, 2003 01:52 AM
An excellent paper discussing the common problems with both event and thread based concurrency systems, advocating threading based on theoretical and pragmatic issues involved in implementing high-concurrency servers.
Why Events Are A Bad Idea:We examine the claimed strengths of events over threads and show that the weaknesses of threads are artifacts of specific threading implementations and not inherent to the threading paradigm.
