Chapter 6Threading
Multithreading is one of the great double-edged swords of programming. If it’s done correctly, it can be a real boon to your application; done incorrectly, it leads to strange, unreproducible errors in the application. Multithreading has a tendency to polarize developers: they either swear that it’s necessary for any application to perform properly or declare it’s to be avoided at all costs. The truth, of course, is somewhere in the middle. Multithreading is a vital piece of the overall performance puzzle. While adding more threads won’t make your application automatically faster, it can make it “feel” faster to the user. That perception is what we’re going to focus on in this chapter.
It’s a common misconception among developers ...
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