The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's

[Brad Roberts]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> But green threads don't take advantage of multi-core processors, neh?

There's very little that's black and white when it comes to the lines 
between processes and threads (both kernel and user space).  I worked 
with a thread library that allows migration of individual threads 
between _processes_.  It's the only one like that I've ever seen, but it 
worked, and quite elegantly (and unfortunately proprietary).  It's 
relatively easy to produce of a M:N model that's a combination of kernel 
level threads combined with user space threads.

Erlang is indeed a very interesting system if for no other reason that 
it's fairly unique.  I wish I could find 3-6 months to really get my 
hands dirty with it, but alas, that's behind another dozen or so 
projects.  Anyone wanna be my lackey, I mean research assistant?  The 
pay would be crappy, the housing not free, and the hours sucky.. but 
it'd be fun, honest!

Later,
Brad