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SubjectRe: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than onnative

Nothing in UnixWare is "lighweight" -- period. It's huge and fat and
their kernel need serious "liposuction" to get on par with Linux. No
worries here.

:-)

Jeff

Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:17:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The kernel has fast lightweight threading. How you map user space threads and
> > co-routines onto this is really between the app and libs. In fact I'd argue
> > strongly that an app _must_ be able to provide its own strategy routine or
> > some kind of hints to the lib
>
> I would not call 8K/16K overhead "lightweight" treading.
>
> -Andi
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