Native vs. green threads

[Matt Welsh]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar) writes:
> 
> 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.

This is all fine and good until you need to exploit an SMP system!


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