Thin Lock Implementation

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Aarti_pl wrote:

> Bartosz Milewski pisze:
>> I posted some implementation details of Thin Lock in my blog,
>> http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/ . I would appreciate comments.
>> 
>> And by the way, I put it on reddit too:
>> http://www.reddit.com/comments/6wmq4/thin_lock_implementation/ .
>> 
>> Bartosz
> 
> Well, I am definitely no concurrency expert, but one questions bothers
> me a bit.
> 
>  From your article it seems that there will be limit of 2046 threads for
> program (11 bits, one based).
> 
> Isn't it too small number, taking into account multi core processors
> which will emerge (able to start much more threads than currently), and
> applications like web servers (which serves a lot of concurrent
> connections)?
> 
> BR
> Marcin Kuszczak
> (aarti_pl)

2046 isn't a particularly small number, in fact most OS'es aren't set up to
allow more than 500-1000 depending on available memory.

However, I agree that it should not restrict _more_ than the OS where a
larger number is available.

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