think twice before threading

I know multithreaded applications are all the rage these days, but I would like to encorage developers to give a little thought to their application design before throwing more threads at the problem. For example, if your application only needs to do a couple (or even several, or maybe even several hundred) things per second, you probably don't need threads.

Now admittedly, I don't know what you're application does or needs as far as threading goes. But, I do know that I've seen more than a couple of apps lately that claim to require more and more threads complete their work in a timely manner, yet shouldn't require more than a single thread.