>> Without native threads support, this release is IMO useless for running
>> any kind of serious Java applications on Linux.
>Realistically, I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
I suspect they'll get native threads out soon, too. I also expect
they'll end up needing to communicate some with the Linux kernel and
libc folks to make it work well. I hope Inprise has some people with
that expertise.
For that matter, I hope someone from Inprise is on this list.
However, I disagree that native threads are required for serious
applications. Green threads work surprisingly well for many
applications. In some, they work better. I recently wrote a spider
program that was invoking another program in a subprocess and blocking
on IO to it. When I had 20 threads (and 20 subprocesses) the green
threads did much better than native threads. That's not entirely
surprising, either.
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