At 22:48 -0500 1/11/00, BWinders wrote:
>I've been doing some research and I have come across the term "Green
>Thread" in reference to JVMs. If I have an application that uses
>threads, can anyone tell me how to check to determine if I need a JVM
>with support for Green Threads or not?
>
>Thanks!
I'm not sure of the entomology of the phrase, but it refers
to lightweight threads managed by the JVM itself and not
mapped onto multiple operating-system threads.
Thus, a "green threaded" JVM can't take advantage of
multiprocessors and is also potentially subject to hanging
if a native method should happen to execute a blocking
system call (of course that all depends on how the JVM
multiplexes its threads)
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