Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello Julian, > > Friday, October 27, 2006, 11:39:29 PM, you wrote: > > JE> As I mentioned in another email, most of the complexity does not come > JE> from the M:N code, but rather from the attempt to provide process > JE> fairness. > What is Process fairness? Situation, when process with 10 threads consumes same amount of CPU resource, as process with 1 thread (if they are equal in IO, sleeping, etc)? > > basically, if you and I both write programs to do a particular job on a timesharing system, and you use threads to do so and I use a sophisticated event handler/state machine, I shouldn't find that my program is running like a pig because yours has 1000 slots in the run queue and I only get run 1 in 1001 ticks.Received on Fri Oct 27 2006 - 20:34:21 UTC
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