John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > People did things like that to hammer threading onto operating > systems so dumb they couldn't context switch, like > DOS, early Windows, and MacOS through 7. Nobody does that > any more.
I see stuff heading more the other way; here's a description of a test of Erlang with 20 million (userspace) threads: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/33b7a62afb727a4f I don't know of any OS's that can handle that many threads. Lightweight userspace threads also makes it sane to do things like make GUI's with a separate thread per widget, and in general to handle large numbers of concurrent tasks without the large memory footprint and context switch overhead of kernel level threads. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
