Re: Interpreter vs hardware threads

From: Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/caml/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 21:02:02 MET

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    >>>>> "Max" == Max Skaller <maxs@in.ot.com.au> writes:
    > Asume LOTS of threads (thousands).

    (insert-file "many-threads-bad-design")

    > [Hardware threads are not fast enough]

    [ I assume you mean OS threads, since hardware-supported threads
      are not very common. ]

    I guess it depends on the OS and the pthreads implementation, but
    it seems that they are usually pretty fast (i.e. fast enough that
    people more or less stopped trying to make them faster).

            Stefan

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