From: <je...@i3...> - 2003-12-11 14:20:57
|
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Greg Wilkins wrote: > finally - I think with modern JVMs thread pooling is probably no longer > really required. For Jetty experimental, I will be testing this to see if > we can get away without the extra expense of a thread pool. For what it's worth, I hope you keep it around. Our CMS maintains thread-local resources that are somewhat expensive to initialize. We used to have our own thread pool, until we realized the servlet container aleady does a fine job of managing threads. Note also that thread creation is somewhat expensive on linux regardless of VM, unless you have NPTL. But I expect pre-NPTL systems will be around for quite some time to come. Jeff |