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Subj : Re: Futexes are wrong! (Are they?)
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Mon Jun 13 2005 05:41 pm


"doug" <noone@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:0cmre.5606$Vj3.3074@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

>>  1. You don't have to make 10,000 bit bitset for select() call on
>> 10,000 fd's;

> You're unlikely to get 10,000 threads running either.

    Certainly. And yet real-world thread pool applications have no 
difficulty handling 10,000 connections. How could that be? ;)

    DS

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