>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephen> Karl is right. There just aren't yet any
Stephen> publicly-available Sun JDKs for Linux that support native
Stephen> threads. Also, I think the DEFAULT_THREADS_FLAG
Stephen> environment cruft in .java_wrapper might have been there
Stephen> even at a time when you couldn't get native threads to
Stephen> work on Solaris (before their new add-on arrived).
In Private email with sbb, he informed me that the Sun developers
don't believe native threads gives any great advantage over green
threads in a uni-CPU environment. Obviously, that would not be true
on a multi-CPU system.
As stated before, I'm in the middle of doing this: just waiting for my
day jod to go away. :)
PS sorry for such a late response, been on holidays...
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Stephen
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