Christopher Subich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the primary benefit (on uniprocessor systems) that if one thread
> executes a blocking task (like IO writes) another thread will receive
> CPU attention.
On multiprocessor systems, of course, the benefit is that threads can
run on separate CPUs. Th
yoda wrote:
> 1)What is the difference (in terms of performance, scalability,[insert
> relevant metric here]) between microthreads and "system" threads?
System-level threads are relatively heavyweight. They come with a full
call stack, and they take up some level of kernel resources [generally
Recently I read Charming Python: Implementing Weightless Threads
(http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pythrd.html) by
David D.
I'm not an authority on threading architectures so I'd like to ask the
following:
1)What is the difference (in terms of performance, scalability,[insert
