From: Joe Martin <jm202@...>
Date: 2010-03-09T00:11:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Limit number of concurrent running threads in pool

Caleb Clausen wrote:
> Yes. Threads use memory (quite a lot of it, in fact). Mostly this goes
> to the thread's stack. Limiting the number of threads saves quite a
> bit of memory. I'm not sure there's any improvement in the amount of
> cpu time either way, other than perhaps some fewer cache misses
> resulting from using less memory.

Thanks!  I figured this was the case.
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