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From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:10:24PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andy Isaacson wrote:
> > Of course this can be (and frequently is) implemented such that there is
> > not one Pthreads thread per object; given simulation environments with 1
> > million objects, and the current crappy state of Pthreads
> > implementations, the researchers have no choice.
> 
> Are these object threads mostly active or inactive?

Mostly inactive (waiting on a semaphore or FIFO).

> Regardless, it seems obvious with today's hardware, that 1 million 
> objects should never be one-thread-per-object, pthreads or no.  That's 
> just lazy programming.

You can call it lazy if you want, but I call it natural.

(Of course I realize that practical considerations prevent users from
creating 1 million kernel threads, or even user threads, today.
Unfortunate, that.)

-andy
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