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> > Why?  The native threading that we're using now is no better/worse than
> > the internal green threads implementation.  Without kernel threads,
> > native threads have *EXACTLY* the same sorts of problems that exist with
> > green threads.
> 
> It's not native threading per se as much as HotSpot.

See my later email.

> The port can't be
> taken seriously until that is fully working, so what's being said isn't
> a directly about native threading.

I disagree, but we're all entitled to our own opinions.  We don't need
HotSpot in order to be 'real'.


Nate

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