Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> Jeffrey I Condon/Cupertino/IBM wrote:
> >
> > A proposal for fixing the Java programming language's threading problems
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Allen Holub suggests that the Java programming language's threading model
> > is possibly the weakest part of the language. This article proposes
> > significant changes and additions to the Java language that would address
> > many of these problems.
> >
>http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/j-king.html?open&l=258,t=gr,p=j.king
> >
> I agree with a lot of those, especially the need for reader/writer
> locks, but some I don't. I think wait/notify is pretty clear and I
> don't like his proposed changes. Some of the changes I just didn't get.
> Can someone explain why we should wrap our threads in other threads?
The MxN threading model (user-space threads within kernel threads) has long been part
of
Solaris. It would be a pretty nice addition to Linux, given Linux's thread scaling
limits.
Nathan
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