- Home
- Software
- Threads FAQ
- A glossary of terms used in threaded programming
- About the multithreaded programming FAQ
- After I create a certain number of threads, my program crashes [Unix]
- Asynchronous thread cancellation [Unix]
- How can I perform a join on any non-specific thread? [Unix]
- Mixing threads and signals [Unix]
- The history of threads
- What are the main families of threads?
- What is a thread?
- Why are reentrant library and system call interfaces good?
teideal glic deisbhéalach
Bryan O'Sullivan's blog
Yearly Archives: 2004
Why Python is useless for serious XML processing
I have a Python application in which, for my sins, I decided to use XML as an on-disk storage format. Unfortunately, when I made this decision, I neglected to measure the performance of the available Python XML processing implementations. Bad,…
Another reason not to buy CDs on spec
Another album that I picked up during my Borders trip last week was M83’s Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. After I bought it and played it, I was stunned by the warm reception this album received at places…
Posted in music
Adventures in judging CDs by their covers
I went to Borders the other day, to replenish my stock of commute music. I get restless when I have to rotate the same few discs more than a few times when driving up and down the Peninsula, and NPR…
Posted in music
Squarepusher, Ultravisitor
Tom Jenkinson has been recording as Squarepusher for years. He started out with genre-defining drill-and-bass albums, then moved on to his own peculiar interpretation of jazz. His latest, Ultravisitor, is a part-live, part-studio album, about evenly split between d’n’b and…
Posted in music
Khalid Kelly!?
While driving home from the climbing gym last night, I listened to some of British Jihad, a public radio documentary about the rise of radical Islam in Britain. While most of the show was unsurprising, it was utterly bizarre to…
Posted in slice-o-life
I can die happy now (or, as it turned out, not)
I just noticed that Geoff Pullum contributes frequently to Language Log. One of the first books I read after coming to the US was his The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, which is fabulously entertaining. My lasting impression was a goggle-eyed…
Posted in Uncategorized
I, for one, welcome our new corrected quote
At Zeitgeist last night with Nat, Rael, Cory, James and Bill, I regurgitated a quip to the effect of “I, for one, welcome our robot masters.” Cory offered the corrected version with “I, for one, welcome our new robot masters.”…
Posted in slice-o-life
Letters from Iraq
Sent by soldiers who served, or are serving, to Michael Moore; published in today’s Guardian. I’m sure Moore was selective in his choices of letters to publish, but it’s still depressing. I know someone who had two members of the…
Posted in Uncategorized
