On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Hongli Lai <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know that, but as you can read from my very first email I was planning > on running I threads, with I=number of cores, where each thread has 1 event > loop. My question now has got nothing to do with the threads vs events > debate. Marc is claiming that running I *processes* instead of I threads is > faster thanks to MMU stuff and I'm asking for clarification. > Right, so either way an argument based on 2 threads per core is irrelevant, which is the argument you made in point (2) earlier. It doesn't make sense to argue about the benefits of threads under a layout that's know to be suboptimal in larger ways. The threads-vs-procs debate is about 1 thread-per-core vs 1-proc-per-core, not N-threads-per-core vs N-procs-per-core.
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