Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1

From: Hui (billh@gnuppy.monkey.org)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 17:10:02 EST


On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:41:33PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> so while this is I/O, it's certainly less efficient to have thousands of
> tasks blocked in read(2) versus having thousands of entries in <pick your
> favourite poll/select/etc. mechanism>.

NIO in the recent 1.4 J2SE solves this problem now and threads don't have to
be abused.

bill

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