Re: AS/400 Threads

[Phil Hall <hallp@xxxxxxxx>]

Doc,

> I've done a little research in the V3R6/V3R7 manuals on threads...
> 
> Anyway, I'm curious-- has anyone used these suckers?  How good are they
> compared to Windows or Unix implementations?  Are they worth the trouble?

They work. But they're not as lightweight as threads on Windows/Unix. On the
400, you'll get n+1 aditional group jobs for n threads. 

The performance gets much better in V4Rx, 'cos IBM found out how 'bad' they
were for the Internet stuff (web-server, etc) they were doing... ;-)

--phil

(take a look at thread1 in phil_src@/qilecsrc)

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