Threading: real pain or just whining?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000169.html

Aside from the VB.net faggotry, and the date of the post (2004 lol), i don't understand why is this people so scared of threads. Right, they add complexity, and a different way of considering problems, but sounds like they are trying to use them in the wrong place (like, everywhere). IMO, proper isolation and adequate locking for thread communication is enough, and doesn't really add any potential flaws to the code.

>>22,24-25
You're all a bunch of faggots who are just repeating what you've read in some idiot's blog. As someone who's both written software in C for ARM7 and ARM9, and written software in Java for what's essentially a modified ARM9, I can tell you that you're incorrect.

I'm not sure how you think the JVM is implemented on embedded systems, but if you think that C is considerably faster you're a retard. Why, you ask? Why would an interpreted language run faster than a native binary?

Because the ARM architecture has an extension which allows it to run Java bytecode natively called Jazelle^[1]. While I'd argue that for some benchmarks Jazelle is slightly less performant than the equivalent C code (because of how ARM extensions work), it isn't a difference you'll notice as a normal developer.

You faggots should stick to what you know -- instead of bitching about real-world performance issues (which you clearly have no experience dealing with), instead complain about Java's blatent lack of critical language features like closures.

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^{[1] http://www.arm.com/products/esd/jazelle_home.html}