5 Aug
2021
5 Aug
'21
12:51 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 06:41:08PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 6:02 PM Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
The counter to this is Solaris tried to allocate a thread for each 8K page
on it's way to disk. The thread stack was 16K. This model, while seen as
ever so elegant, means that 2/3rds of main memory were thread stacks.
Sometimes threads make sense, there they did not.
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
A computer is a state machine. Threads are
for people who can't
program
state machines.
Alan Cox
Orly? Try embedding an LL(1) parser in an event loop that gives you a new
event every time a block is read off the disk.
Event loops are just manual CPS transformations of coroutines -- but why do
the transformation manually instead of having your compiler do it for you?