Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:40:58 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than onnative |
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:33:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:17:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > The kernel has fast lightweight threading. How you map user space threads and > > > co-routines onto this is really between the app and libs. In fact I'd argue > > > strongly that an app _must_ be able to provide its own strategy routine or > > > some kind of hints to the lib > > > > I would not call 8K/16K overhead "lightweight" treading. > > For kernel level threading with the functionality provided it is very light > weight. Don't mix kernel lightweight with 'light weight' in C library > terms which normally means a malloc and filling in a few values to fake > a userspace process context
I don't, but a lot of programmers seem to (just look e.g. at nscd)
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