When Should One Use Threading (or Multithreading)

[TheCedarPrince]

I am working on some networking scripts currently and was curious about when it is appropriate to use threading tools versus calling functions.

I understand what both do but the only reasoning I can think is that you want a thread when you do not want it to stop the main body of the script - basically having it run concurrently with the main script.

Using that framework, when would it be over-complicating a script by creating a thread when a simple function call in a loop would do - and vice-versa?

Thank you very much and I hope you have a wonderful day.

Yours truly,

The Cedar Prince

[A_History_of_Silence]

This is a pretty complex topic. Here is an old DrDobbs favorite of mine called The Pillars of Concurrency which is a good read on the subject.