14 Sep
2010
14 Sep
'10
2:46 p.m.
Ertugrul's advice is still correct. I'd wager there are very few concurrent applications that could survive a killThread without disaster. People simply don't write or test code with that in mind, and even when they do, it's more likely than not to be wrong.
Does this apply to pure code? I use threads to gradually force some data, if it turns out the data won't be needed the threads are killed. I've never had a disaster because of it.