Though, by its nature, green thread does not support SMP. Any comment /
Steve
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From: "Weiqi Gao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Native vs. green threads
> 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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