Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

June 2006
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fast threads

Fast threads

Recently I was sitting in some meeting or other and thinking deep thoughts about threads. (Either that or falling asleep.) I thought about OpenMP and the short-lived job assignments that are handed out to threads. Then I thought about all the megabytes of memory allocated to the stacks for all those threads, who [...]