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SubjectRe: kernel thread support - LWP's
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:50:09AM -0400, Nils Nieuwejaar - Sun High Performance Computing wrote:
> I'm not an event hater. There are plenty of applications in which an

The discussion is not threads vs events, but threads vs processes.
Rob Pike's observation that "threads" is generally an attempt to avoid
fixing slow process creation is still on the money. If you can't make
a "multithreaded" application run easily and efficiently on your OS, then
the problem is not solved by adding another context abstraction to the OS.


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