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

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 04:11:26 EST


On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:

> > 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.

Sounds like a job for fairsched?

(Actually, it just sounds like a bad idea... it might work, though, I
suppose...)

James.

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