Interpreter vs hardware threads

From: Max Skaller (maxs@in.ot.com.au)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 04:52:28 MET

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    Does anyone know how fast the ocaml bytecode interpreter
    'switches' between threads (that is, what is the scheduling overhead?)
    Assume most of the threads are waiting (say, on a condition variable).
    Asume LOTS of threads (thousands).

    [Hardware threads are not fast enough] 

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