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From: schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu.NO-SPAM (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [??] pure kernel vs. dual concurrency implementations
Date: 22 Feb 1997 20:38:39 -0500
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Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> writes:
| m> * simpler model, less complicated scheduler
| 
| Arguments from simplicity are oftentimes seductive and misleading, if
| what you are trying to achieve is good performance.

On the other hand, if you look at actual systems, like Plan 9, you
find that they are very fast in addition to being simple.