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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Lee Chin <leechin@mail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: debate on 700 threads vs asynchronous code
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:28:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030123232834.GA17554@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030123231913.26663.qmail@mail.com>

> b) Write an asycnhrounous system with only 2 or three threads where I manage the connections and stack (via setcontext swapcontext etc), which is progromatically a little harder
> 
> Which way will yeild me better performance, considerng both approaches are implemented optimally?

If this is a serious question, an async system will by definition do better.
You have either 700 stacks screwing up the data cache or 2-3 stacks nicely
fitting in the data cache.  Ditto for instruction cache, etc.
-- 
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-23 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-23 23:19 debate on 700 threads vs asynchronous code Lee Chin
2003-01-23 23:19 ` Lee Chin
2003-01-23 23:28 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-01-23 23:31 ` Ben Greear
2003-01-23 23:31   ` Ben Greear
2003-01-27  9:48 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-01-27 21:48   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-27 21:48     ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-27 22:08 ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-24  0:07 Lee Chin
2003-01-24  1:46 Dan Kegel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301232028480.980-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-01-24  2:04 ` Dan Kegel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301232144470.8203-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-01-24  8:21 ` Dan Kegel
2003-01-24  8:26   ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-24 22:53     ` Corey Minyard
2003-01-24 23:21       ` Matti Aarnio
2003-01-24 23:29         ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-25  0:11           ` Dan Kegel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301241840450.11758-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-01-25  0:24 ` Dan Kegel
2003-01-29 17:26 Lee Chin
2003-01-29 17:26 ` Lee Chin
2003-01-30  9:36 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-01-30  9:36   ` Terje Eggestad
2003-01-29 21:32 Dan Kegel

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