Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux"

From: Dave Zarzycki (dave@thor.sbay.org)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 18:43:48 EST

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On 23 Aug 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Continuations are evil. And they don't scale in SMP. Don't even think
> about them.

If you have the time, could you please explain why?

Thanks,

davez

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