Top "Green-threads" questions

Green threads are threads that are scheduled by a virtual machine (VM) instead of natively by the underlying operating system.

Technically, why are processes in Erlang more efficient than OS threads?

Erlang's Characteristics From Erlang Programming (2009): Erlang concurrency is fast and scalable. Its processes are lightweight in that the Erlang virtual …

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Green-threads and thread in Python

As Wikipedia states: Green threads emulate multi-threaded environments without relying on any native OS capabilities, and they are managed in …

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Tkinter locks Python when an icon is loaded and tk.mainloop is in a thread

Here's the test case... import Tkinter as tk import thread from time import sleep if __name__ == '__main__': t = …

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Why did Rust remove the green-threading model; what's the disadvantage?

Runtime freedom: Rust’s runtime system and green-threading model has been entirely removed, which cut the static binary size of “…

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Which scripting languages support multi-core programming?

I have written a little python application and here you can see how Task Manager looks during a typical run. (…

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