Re: Multithreading

[<pcg goof com ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:51:14AM +0100, Jens Wilke <jens wilke org> wrote:
> I've got Image::Magick operations "in that window" which makes the whole app 
> waiting.

One very very good argument against threads is Image::Magick. Unless you
carefully control the images you are using you are bound to crashes and
worse, as ImageMagick since version 5 is extremely frickle.

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