Subj : Re: threaded application scalability question To : comp.programming.threads From : David Schwartz Date : Wed Feb 16 2005 12:17 pm "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" wrote in message news:87650smo1c.fsf@qrnik.zagroda... > This depends on the implementation of threads. OS-level threads will > probably be too heavy when there are several thousands of them, but if > the given language implements threads in userspace, they might scale > exactly as hand-written dispatching could - because it's essentially > the same, only the source code is written more conveniently. Not likely. What happens when there's a page fault, say due to a rare code path being hit? DS .