>How would a pthread-based web server be any faster than apache's
>multi-process model?  Linux pthreads are all kernel processes, so
>don't you have the same context switching penalty?

No.  Switching between threads is a less heavyweight operation; on some 
machines very much so.  Since they all have the same memory mapping there is 
no need to invalidate TLBs or virtually-indexed caches.

p.



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