[TUHS] Threads vs... not

[Lawrence Stewart]

What do folks think about event-driven programming as a substitute for threads in UI and process control settings?

I wrote the service processor code for the Sicortex Machines using libevent.a and I thought it was very lightweight and fairly easy to think about. (This was a thing running on ucLinux on a tiny 16 MB coldfire that managed the consoles and power supplies and temp sensors and JTAG access and booting and so forth.)

Tk (IIRC) has a straightforward event driven model for UI interactions.

Meanwhile, the dropbox plugin for my Mac has 120 threads running.  WTF?

This was triggered by the fork/spawn discussion.

-Larry
(started with Unix at V6 on an 11/34)