On Mon, Jul 14, 2003, Damon Hastings wrote:
Can you give me a ballpark idea of the cost per
context switch for 150 threads, almost all of which are waiting on I/O at
any given time?
The costs depend on the particular method Pth uses for the context
implementation, of course. But all available
The costs depend on the particular method Pth uses for the context
implementation, of course. But all available methods Pth uses are very
cheap, because they are user-space only methods. Keep also in mind that
because Pth is a non-preemtive threading implementation, the context
