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mgornick on Dec 13, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Threads Basics

People wonder why multithreaded development is so difficult. I have to use external libraries just to get threading working in different OSes.

ntoshev on Dec 14, 2008 [–]

This is accidental complexity that is solvable by standardization. The essential complexity is in managing program state.

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