Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:56:16 -0700 | From | "Nate Tuck" <> | Subject | Re: kernel thread support - LWP's |
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At 01:15 PM 7/15/99 -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: >Under what reasonable circumstances will you have more than a couple of >threads ready for scheduling?
In cases where developer time (or time to market) is at a premium and the problems at hand require some kind of modular parallelism. I have a program on my desk that can run >20 active threads on a one CPU machine. Given the problem(s) we had to solve with it, threads saved us many man-months of development effort and were the right answer. I can imagine that other developers have the same sorts of quandaries (or would if they understood how threads could help them).
nate
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