Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!saturn!pardo@june.cs.washington.edu From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.research Subject: Re: THREADS, Light weight processes Message-ID: <5323@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 31 Oct 88 18:29:46 GMT Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Lines: 10 Approved: comp-os-research@jupiter.ucsc.edu In the meanwhile, here's yet another reference: The Performance Implications of Thread Management Alternatives for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors by Thomas E. Anderson, Edward D. Lazowska, and Henry M. Levy.; Department of Computer Science FR-35, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 Tech Reprot 88-09-04 The title should tell all. The paper contains both analytic models and experimental results.