What a great discussion this has been!
>I don't think anyone is arguing that high thread counts are always
>wrong or that the current implementation is the best of all worlds.
Phew!
>Yes, the Linux kernel can do better and Java implementations can do better
And in the current situation, we have control over the Linux kernel
(it is open source, afterall) but small access to the Java
implementations. This whole thread started when I said that one of the
Sun engineers claims that Hotspot can't really work with green
threads. That means that Sun's going to rely on native threads only.
The only option left is to bang Linux' native threads into shape.
Does anyone have good numbers on how well Linux threads scale? I don't
really know, I'm only talking from the vague understanding I have that
Linux native threads aren't as good as Solaris or NT.
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