Green threads - some experience

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Clemens Eisserer wrote:
>> For example, on Linux where each POSIX thread is a cloned process, it's
>> Linux's fault (not the JVM's fault) if that doesn't scale well. For example,
>> other OS's don't have such heavyweight threads. FreeBSD's KSE's are an
>> example of a better tradeoff using M:N user:kernel threading.
> 
> It seems you are some years behind actual development.
> The threading model you describe was used till linux-2.4, since 2.6
> NPTL is used instead which outperforms almost everything else.

Good to hear that :-)

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs      *        CTO, Awarix        *      http://www.awarix.com


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