== Quote from Norbert Nemec ([email protected])'s article > Hi there, > I just found that recent change in the language to make all global > variables thread-local by default. This makes me think of a major > performance problem: every thread creation will have to copy all the > thread-local variables. This makes it impossible to efficiently spawn > many light-weight threads even if they do not make use of the global > variables at all. > I guess I am not the first one to spot this problem? I believe that > thread creation should come with as little overhead as possible. Maybe a > concept of light-weight threads based on side-effect free code could > complement the regular threads? > Just a quick idea to throw into discussion... > Greetings, > Norbert
What's wrong with using thread/task pools for these situations?
