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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:27:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: threading and performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911081026520.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911081749470.1492-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> If FreeBSD doesn't have multi-threading, or not to the level many other
> OSes have, how does it perform so well under loads and multitask so
> smoothly?

Our threads library is amazingly scalable, the only problem is that
it will not distribute itself over multiple processors.

starting/killing several thousand threads and context switching
between them is blindingly fast.

-Alfred



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