Jan-Willem Maessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Absolutely. Good high-level thread support trumps anything provided
> by the operating system.
Unless you have more than one CPU...
> Similar dramatic performance disparities have cropped up in the Java
> community. There are Java benchmarks which create thousands of
> threads; most implementations slow to a crawl when this happens, as
> the operating system collapses under the crushing load.
In particular, Linux will have a problem with thousands of *runnable*
processes. There's some potentially nasty O(>n) complexities when
processing the run queue, so while a couple of runnable processes is
very fast, having lots is not.
In practice, most processes are blocked on IO most of the time, so
it seems it's only a problem for certain Java benchmarks.
-kzm
--
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