29 Jan
2008
29 Jan
'08
8:05 p.m.
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:37:58 -0800, Brian Budge wrote:
Sorry, I have to amend my statement. I just ran an experiment which launched 10000 threads vs launching 4 threads and doing the same amount of work. Results seem to indicate that the former is quite expensive on Linux too -- about 2 orders of magnitude different in my test.
I think this also depends on whether your kernel has support for NPTL. -- Sohail Somani http://uint32t.blogspot.com