Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752365AbXB1QxM (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:53:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752368AbXB1QxM (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:53:12 -0500 Received: from [72.242.190.170] ([72.242.190.170]:6011 "EHLO iradimed.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752363AbXB1QxL (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:53:11 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 848 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:53:11 EST Message-ID: <45E5B00E.8090003@cfl.rr.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:38:38 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael K. Edwards" CC: Theodore Tso , Evgeniy Polyakov , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Ulrich Drepper , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan.van.de.Ven@vax.1wt.eu Illegal-Object: Syntax error in CC: address found on vger.kernel.org: CC: Arjan van de Ven ^-extraneous tokens in address Illegal-Object: Syntax error in CC: address found on vger.kernel.org: CC: Arjan van de Ven ^-extraneous tokens in address Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3 References: <45DCD9E5.2010106@redhat.com> <20070222074044.GA4158@elte.hu> <20070222113148.GA3781@2ka.mipt.ru> <20070226172812.GC22454@2ka In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Feb 2007 16:39:02.0214 (UTC) FILETIME=[F3FD7E60:01C75B56] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.2.0.1122-3.6.1039-15026.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--2.243100-5.000000-31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 819 Lines: 18 Michael K. Edwards wrote: > State machines are much harder to write without going through a real > on-paper design phase first. But multi-threaded code is much harder > for a team of average working coders to write correctly, judging from > the numerous train wrecks that I've been called in to salvage over the > last ten years or so. I have to agree; state machines are harder to design and read, but multithreaded programs are harder to write and debug _correctly_. Another way of putting it is that the threadlet approach is easier to do, but harder to do _right_. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/