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From: mcvax!cwi.nl!jack@uunet.UU.NET (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: THREADS, Light weight processes
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Date: 2 Nov 88 22:46:24 GMT
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So far nobody seems to have mentioned that LWPs are a very nice
mechanism to program with, much nicer than non-blocking I/O with
completion interrupts or polling, etc.

Just look at your average unix utility that uses SIGURG or select()
and imagine what it would look like when written as a set of
cooperating LWPs using blocking primitives and you'll get the
point.....

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