On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:16 AM, TimDaly <[email protected]> wrote: > This might be interesting when the discussion of events vs threads > comes up: > http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/vonbehren/vonbehren_html/ > > Essentially they argue that thread programming can scale (100k > threads?)
This is about threads for concurrency as opposed to threads for parallelism. Sure, they can scale. Erlang and Haskell can easily cope with that many user-land threads. The first versions of the JVM also had green threads, though the implementation was never designed to scale so highly. -Per -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
