Bjorn Pettersen pbjorn at uswest.net
Wed Jan 3 13:27:16 EST 2001

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Terry Hancock wrote:

> [snip]

> 2) Do any of these architectures impose high per-thread
> costs or limits on the number of processes that can be
> running (or rather what are the limits I can expect for
> any architecture?).  I ask this because this programming
> model calls for large numbers (100s or 1000s) of very
> light processes (e.g. 10 - 100 lines of Python code).

Very few arcitechtures will let you run 1000s of threads. Stackless
Python with micro threads should work perfectly for what you're
describing though...

-- bjorn

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