From: Brent Rowland <tarod@...>
Date: 2001-02-17T03:17:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10988] Re: Suggestion for threading model

----- Original Message -----
From: "John van V." <john_van_v@yahoo.com>
> ported to Sun.  Linux threads are heavy weight to the extreme, they are
just
> disguised processes.  The Sun model is LWP internal to each process (of

Linux processes are very light-weight.  Windows and some versions of Unix
have very heavy processes, so their threads are light-weight _by
comparison_.  With light-weight processes like Linux has, forking and
creating a thread are merely points on a continuum of how much is shared
between processes.  At least that's what I understand from reading the lkml.

Brent