Subj : Re: pthread_create and memory To : comp.programming.threads From : David Hopwood Date : Sat Mar 12 2005 11:50 pm David Schwartz wrote: > "David Hopwood" wrote: > >>Unless you have a 64-bit machine, virtual memory *is* a scarce resource. >>This is one of the things (only one) that prevents kernel threads from >>scaling beyond a few thousand per process on a 32-bit machine or OS. > > And the fact that you don't have a few thousand processors. That's beside the point. Threads are primarily for expressing concurrent program structure. Use of hardware parallelism is a bonus. -- David Hopwood .