Re: Green/Native threads

[Dimitris Vyzovitis]

Nathan Meyers wrote:

> But I'm always curious about "wacky people" who like to
> use thousands of threads (or tons of memory or zillions of levels of
> recursion, etc.). Is that approach fundamental to solving the problem
> efficiently, or do you use it because it's convenient and/or cool?
>

Sometimes the model involved is recursive/concurrent by definition, and a
recursive/concurrent implementation is the cleanest way to implement it.
What are we supposed to do in such cases? Perplex the situation badly in
order to avoid using lots of threads?

There are cases you simply can't do so.

Dimitris