Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux"

From: Thomas Zehetbauer (thomasz@hostmaster.org)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 02:42:34 EST


> But if you can get rid of the stacks, and you _can_ get rid of the
> stacks sometimes, then why not have one thread per widget in a GUI? Or
> one thread per animated objected on a web page? Some notions of
For this to work without opening up a security hole we must be able to
distribute the processor timeslice for a process among all of it's threads.
Please correct me if I am wrong but AFAIK this is impossible with the current
scheduler logic.

Tom

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