From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-07-03T18:19:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads and Ruby

2008/7/3 Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com>:
> Actually, it's probably more of a stepping stone toward full native,
> parallel threads.

That's what I believe, too.

> And green threads are no faster than regular threads, but are often cheaper
> to create.

But these days overhead of OS thread creation is negligible.  I did
some tests with a Java 6 JVM some time ago and thread creation is
extremely fast - at least on my Windows XP box. :-)

Cheers

robert

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