COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 7: Difference between revisions
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This site provides in-depth info about threads, threads-pooling, scheduling: | |||
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Here is another site that outlines THREAD designs and techniques: | |||
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/osnotes/h2.html | |||
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Question
How is it possible for systems to supports millions of threads or more within a single process? What are the key design choices that make such systems work - and how do those choices affect the utility of such massively scalable thread implementations?
Answer
Please see discussion.
This site provides in-depth info about threads, threads-pooling, scheduling: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684841(VS.85).aspx
Here is another site that outlines THREAD designs and techniques: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/osnotes/h2.html