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Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes) John Ousterhout Sun Microsystems Laboratories john.ousterhout@ /~ouster Introduction Threads: – Grew up in OS world (processes). – Evolved into user-level tool. – Proposed as solution for a variety of problems. – Every programmer should be a threads programmer? Problem: threads are very hard to program. Alternative: events. Claims: – For most purposes proposed for threads, events are better. – Threads should be