On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Matt Welsh wrote:
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> [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!
To clarify my original statement, this is mostly what I meant when I
said "serious" java applications. From the customer support issues
we receive at my day job for the product I work on, it seems that a
reasonable percentage of the people running Java servers out in the
commercial world are using SMP boxes.
Scott
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