Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ?
On 8/1/2013 12:30 PM, taqmcg@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, August 1, 2013 11:25:25 AM UTC-4, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 8/1/2013 11:00 AM, usvirtualobservatory@gmail.com wrote:
I think it is something like:
You can achieve what you want to do in two ways:
A) use Thread.stop
B) set a flag and let the thread do what it need to do to
terminate in a graceful manner
#A can be done safely in some cases and can not be done safely in
other cases. Even if it can be done safely, then it will require
significant analysis to get it right. And even if it gets done
right, then there is a high risk that that a bug will be introduced
during maintenance later, because the maintenance programmer do not
have the skill or the time to understand the subtleties of the
problem.
#B can always be done safely. It requires not much work. And
is relative maintenance friendly.
Easy choice in my opinion.
Sure... If you control all the code, and your code has no bugs in it
(so that no infinite loop occurs somewhere you didn't expect).
That's not always the case -- I certainly expect that my code has
bugs and I use a fair number of external libraries which may have
bugs of there own.
They assume that you control the code.
They do not assume that there are no unexpected bugs. They just
don't handle the unexpected bugs.
Since most of my task code is single threaded and numerical, and I'd
plan on throwing away anything touched by a killed thread, a lot of
the concerns that are brought up seem more handleable than might be
the case in other applications.
And you may get it to work.
But why spend more time on a worse solution?
Arne
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