Task migration between threads sounds like a great idea. I am sure we can make that work easily actually. This discussion is timely. We will have an intern start working on these parts in a month or so.
Andreas On Apr 15, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Marijn Haverbeke wrote: > Relevant link: > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/07/29/444912.aspx > (short of it: Windows is not good at large number of threads, Raymond > Chen is unapologetic about it, insinuates it is stupid to want many > threads). > > I don't have much else to add. I share Rafael's concerns about I/O > multiplexing being complicated and necessarily leaky, and I'd like to > support automatic migration of tasks between threads, but I do not > know how to model this in a robust, low-overhead way (yet). > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
