Scott Murray wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Matt Welsh wrote:
> >
> > [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.
And how are they exploiting the SMP system with green threads?
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