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Story: Why you should care about multi-threaded apps
A brave 'new' world?
As a developer who has been using multi-threading techniques for 6 years all I can say is welcome to a brave new world. The challenges of parallelism and thread synchronisation are far outweighed by the thrill of seeing you application adapt to demand and seemingly come alive. The design and development process needs to be well thought through, and debugging can be particularly interesting, but if you truly understand OO concepts then multi-threading comes naturally.
It’s a shame you didn’t mention the .Net framework in the article; it’s arguably the easiest way to pick up threading techniques. There are all number of threading libraries and a brilliant implementation of the Asynchronous Programming Model using delegates. For newbies – this is a great place to start learning.
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