Microthreads: wait( duration ) with minimal processor overhead, u

[Michael Hudson]

Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> writes:

> > Normal sleeping threads (for instance, a thread that has blocked while
> > waiting for input from a queue, or waiting for a timer to finish) do not
> > take up any processor activity until the they are reactivated by the
> > event that wakes them. I think you may be working on an already-solved
> > problem.
> 
> Eh? These are *microthreads*. Using thousands and thousands
> of "normal" threads will clobber your cpu. And yet in a very
> simple test of microthreads, I was able to spawn up 10,000 of
> them and watch them finish in under 3 seconds flat. Quite
> remarkable.
> 
> I'll be a monkey's uncle if the author of the uthread library
> doesn't know all about how normal threads work...

Who was the person you just replied to!

confused-ly y'rs
Michael

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