KDE4 Development Critical Path

[Guillaume Laurent]

Michael Brade wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 March 2006 10:13, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>   
>> One important reason pro processes is that a crash in a kioslave process
>> doesn't kill the whole application. This advantage of separate
>> processes over threads should not be underestimated.
>>     
> That's actually a very good point! I will immediately remove all my thoughts 
> about threads :-)
>   
Threads and processes are not equivalent and have different usages, and 
kioslaves are much more a job for processes than threads, IMHO. All they 
need to do is to feed back a data stream to their parent, they do not 
need to access the parent's data, and they are relatively short lived. 
Turning kioslaves into threads would be a huge mistake. I can't see any 
added benefit (not even performance), but it will introduce endless 
reliability problems.

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