When Should I Use Threads?

Question

As far as I\'m concerned, the ideal amount of threads is 3: one for the UI, one for CPU resources, and one for IO resources.

But I\'m probably wrong.

I\'m ju

Answer 1

Herb Sutter wrote an article for Dr. Dobb's Journal in which he talks about the three pillars of concurrency. This article does a very good job of breaking down which problems are good candidates for being solved via threading constructs.