From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T06:35:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row


On 11.4.2005, at 21:10, Bill Kelly wrote:

> From: "Ilmari Heikkinen" <kig@misfiring.net>
>>
>> Re: green threads vs native threads, if a green threads implementation
>> is 30 times faster, that's like having 29 extra cpus, no?
>
> It's just the context switch that gets faster... :)
>
> (Well, and as has been stated, maybe also the garbage
> collector can be faster too with green threads.  But it's
> not like native machine code goes any faster through the
> CPU  :)
>

My intent (and I'm making this up as I type :) was something like:
If making a fast VM with native thread support is hard enough to 
seriously bog down development speed, maybe it shouldn't be the number 
one priority.