Re: Threads across programming languages

On Thu, 2 May 2024 13:28:15 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

On 5/1/2024 10:39 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Wed, 1 May 2024 22:20:47 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
 

On 5/1/2024 1:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Remember, we’re talking about maximizing I/O throughput here, so CPU
is not the bottleneck.

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It can be if your thread synchronization scheme is sub par.

 
Another reason to avoid threads.

 
Why? Believe it or not, there are ways to create _highly_ scalable
thread synchronization schemes.

I’m sure there are. But none of that is relevant when the CPU isn’t the
bottleneck anyway.

So long as your async tasks have an await call somewhere in their main
loops, that should be sufficient to avoid most bottlenecks.

 
async tasks are using threads... No?

No. They are built on coroutines. Specifically, the “stackless” variety.

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