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Urban Widmark wrote:
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> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Glen Newton wrote:
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> > Which are faster/less overhead/better : green threads or native threads?
>
> Green threads look like one thread to the kernel, so if one of them goes
> to sleep in the kernel (blocking on IO) the whole process stops. Switching
> between green threads should be cheaper (depending on how much state needs
> to be saved I guess).
Although this would seem to be a crippling problem for Java threads (one thread
blocks on a read, the whole VM hangs), in fact, I believe that the Java IO
libraries have been specifically written to avoid making blocking calls, so that
you can use green threads and not have your whole app when a single thread
blocks.
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