Subj : Re: Futexes are wrong! (Are they?)
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Jomu
Date : Wed Jun 08 2005 04:31 pm

I would not hire clerk for every customer, but efficiency grows as
number of clerks is nearer to number of customers currently shopping
:). Thats one thing. Another thing, there is surely known percentage of
oglers in any shop - and there is no such luxury in our designs -
oglers are lost performance.

When you create pools, you loose when, for example, two clients
needeing attention atm are served by same thread. I am sure this
situation is not so rare. Ideal would be if them would distribute their
moments of needed attention, but something tells me Murphy lives there
too.

dd

.