Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Dec 2008 10:58 UTC
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RE[2]: Thom shows the point of view of user, Randall devel
by flanque on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 03:09
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I have to agree with you entirely. Thread count bares no relationship to new functionality whatsoever.
Recently I re-wrote some monitoring software from single threaded to multi-threaded. The threads were worker threads. There's an option in the software to adjust the size of the worker thread pool, so at any time without a single change of code I can increase this pool with zero new functionality.





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Have you ever implemented anything that uses a pool of worker threads?
I can imagine Microsoft employees reading this and thinking that instead of actually doing any work they'll just change a "fooBarWorkerThreadCount" registry setting, and then call it Windows 8. I wonder how many people would see the dramatic increase in the thread count and decide there must be a corresponding massive number of new features...