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Re: Scheme is too complicated


On 981029, Klaus Schilling wrote:
> What is so bad about threads implemented in user space like via the qthread lib
> that everyone except myself cries for kernel level threads?

It isn't that they're 'bad', it's that they don't take direct advantage of 
multiple processors like kernel-level threads can and do.