Re: Process vs Thread: what are the consequences?
Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
I should note that this isn't true anymore. At least it isn't true
anymore based on my recent experimentation using Java 1.6. The mapping
between native threads and green threads is not one-to-one anymore. I
Many JVMs do not use green threads at all.
went to some effort to get the JVM to use a specific number of native
threads for some calculations I was doing and found that it would ignore
the advice I gave it and decide when it was a good idea to use another
native thread on its own.
Many JVMs will just create a thread in the OS for each thread in the JVM.
I must admit that the JVM probably makes better decisions about this than
I would, but it was still a bit annoying.
Java VMs from Sun since 1.4.2 have not used green threads, at least not on
Linux with the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL).
<http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/JavaTechandLinux/RedHat/index.html>
"The NPTL approach keeps the 1-on-1 thread mapping (1 user or Java thread to 1 kernel thread),
As others have pointed out in this (newsgroup) thread, the implementation of
Java (execution) threads is JVM-dependent. Some JVMs map threads one-to-one
with pthreads or the platform equivalent, as quoted for Sun's 1.4.2 Red Hat
implementation; others do not. JVMs generally seem to be moving toward using
native threads 1-to-1 to Java threads in order to leverage the burgeoning
prevalence of multi-processor / multi-core / multi-(hardware)threaded computers.
--
Lew
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