Subj : Re: SpiderMonkey and threads
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Tue Mar 29 2005 11:59 am

Brendan Eich wrote:

> You need one context per thread concurrently executing JS.  So if you 
> have a pool of N threads, you could assign M < N contexts to the M 
> threads that concurrently want to execute.


M <= N, of course -- but I was hinting with the < at the likelihood that 
fewer threads than all the ones you'll have around need to run JS at the 
same time (concurrently, or even in [truly-hardware-parallel] parallel 
on SMP systems).

/be

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