On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:45 PM, john skaller > Maybe not. Consider a game where EVERYTHING is a thread. > All the actors, sprites, everything. All the time, not just when visible. > [Simulation]. > > Most of those objects need almost no state and use no resources. > True. But remember the original design goal of Felix was a telco environment. > Felix ran at 500K trx/sec. Where trx is creating a thread or sending one a > message with > zero content. (Sending C++ strings slows it down a lot due to copying). > > That was on a 1990's PC. Half a million transactions a second on a PC. > Show me a Solaris machine that can even run that many threads, let > alone context switch at that speed.
well, maybe if the solaris machine was running Erlang... ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: DESIGN Expert tips on starting your parallel project right. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
