Subj : Re: thread suspend using pthreads?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Date : Sun Sep 04 2005 12:59 am

"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes:

> I totally disagree. In fact, the reality is quite the reverse. OSes
> keep working harder and harder to make brain-damaged applications
> work well. An application should reuse its threads and use thread
> pools. It should not expect to be able to quickly create large
> numbers of threads only to destroy them. I have seem to much cruft
> in the OSes that impair the performance of well-written programs
> where the justification is that it makes badly written programs
> perform better.

I semi-disagree. Maintaining thread pools should not be the
responsibility of application code but of threading libraries.
Applications should use an abstraction which assumes that threads
are cheap.

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