[Stackless] stackless and threads

Christian Tismer tismer at tismer.com
Mon Jul 14 01:44:03 CEST 2003


Oren Tirosh wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 06:47:22PM +0200, Christian Tismer wrote:
> 
>>>Could stackless be used to reduce the stack requirements of each thread
>>>so a larger number of native threads can be started simultaneously?
>>
>>I don't think so. Whenever you start a new thread, some large
>>amount of memory is allocated for it. All tasklets in such
>>a thread the use the same stack space, but I don't see how
>>it can be reduced by that.
> 
> 
> pthread_attr_setstacksize can be used to set the stack size to a lower
> value.

That's fine. But probably not any achievement due to Stackless :-)

ciao - chris

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