[svlug] Re: Thread Programming part 2

[Jeffrey B. Siegal]

Tin Le wrote:
> You are right.  Nothing comes for free.  Tuning the kernel for Java would
> mean something else run slower.  That's the way it is.  You can't have a
> kernel that is the fastest in all area.
> 
> I agree 100%.  It just means that thread on Linux is not going to be as
> fast as threads in Solaris.

No, it means that certain specific Java applications (really benchmarks)
using a huge number of threads but doing relatively little real work are
not going to be as fast as on Linux.  As for whether threaded
applications are going to be slower on Linux generally, that's possible,
but not demonstrated by the evidence presented here.