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From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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Subject: Re: threading and performance
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But the kernel is single threaded right now, correct?

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>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
>
>

-jonathon




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