Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM | Date | Sun, 23 Jan 2000 11:07:58 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> said:
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> In both cases, it's very rare that having more threads than CPUs ever > helps you. As Alan said, threads are for people who can't program > state machines. He's dead on correct and if you think about it, threads > have inherently more cache footprint than a state driven model (this > actually isn't true in theory in all cases but man, oh, man is it ever > true in practice. I don't know what it is but people who use threads > have this builtin assumption that memory bandwidth is infinite and cache > size is infinite, etc.)
Because the von Neumann computer model still widely taught in school has no cache, since the CPU is assumed much slower than memory? ;-) -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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