>But what about "true" multitasking? In my experience, green threads
>don't do that very well.
In Java, green threads may not do multitasking at all. Java makes no
guarantees about preemptive threading - it's entirely correct for one
thread to dominate the CPU, as long as it's the highest priorit
> The most praised benefit of native threads: A multithreaded application
> can be concurrently processed on a SMP machine by its processors.
Hmm. Everyone says that's the best thing about native threads. But what about
"true" multitasking? In my experience, green threads don't do that very well.
> Christian Seiler writes:
>> Thanks for the infos.
>>
>> Question are green thread slower than native threads ?
>>
It depends.
Christian> Well, hard to answer. A common opinion is that green
Christian> threads are slower because the JVM has to do a lot of
Chri
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 09:46:14AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Would this affect the performance of the forthcoming Java Sound API and
> Java Media Framework API. Or am I barking (mad) up the wrong tree?
The Java Sound API depends on native code to provide some of the sound
> Thanks for the infos.
>
> Question are green thread slower than native threads ?
>
Well, hard to answer. A common opinion is that green threads
are slower because the JVM has to do a lot of additional work
like dispatching/serializing signals and other stuff for the
green threads.
On the ot
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Subject: Another JDK 1.2 Status Report
Author: kbhend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at lon-mime
Date:04/02/99 00:15
Hi,
I thought I would pass along some good news. The porters ran with plan B
and so we now have a working green_threads version that can and does run
the JCK to completion
On 04-Feb-99 Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> Sorry, I can't provide more info, but rest assured we are all working hard
> to get this thing out the door as soon as possible.
You're all doing a great work, thank you.
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Andrea "Kontorotsui" Controzzi - MALE Student of Computer Science at
Universit
Hi,
I thought I would pass along some good news. The porters ran with plan B
and so we now have a working green_threads version that can and does run
the JCK to completion without hanging on both x86 and ppc. We still have
to find and fix all of the errors reported by the JCK, but at least now
