Threads Question
Maciej Stachowiak (mstachow@time-enough-for-love.mit.edu)
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:51:13 EDT
Jean-Philippe Langlois <jpl@iname.com> wrote:
>Please don't apologize. I should have said that my project was really a
>research/curiosity project. The _real_ thing is actually designed with
>two threads in the most common case. One to handle the GUI with events
>dispatched sequentially, and one to do the rest of the work.
>My curiosity came from the BeOS, which I heard uses one thread per
>window. When asked about the overhead in memory and cpu time for
>switching contexts, they told me their threads where _really_
>lightweighted. But your remark made much sense, someone else also
>mentioned 4MB os user stack as well. 8MB just for the threads' stacks
>would be a ridiculous waste. Thanks for your input.
>From the BeOS demo I saw, I gathered that BeOS has one thread per top
level frame window, not for every window whatsoever in the strict
sense. But I may have misunderstood, there was, sadly, more hype than
technical detail although some key developers were there and the demo
was at MIT.
- Maciej Stachowiak