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    SubjectRe: kernel thread support - LWP's
    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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