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Green and Native Threads

gunjan
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Can anyone please explain the difference between the two types: green threads and native threads
Any help appreciated.
GUnjan

Regards<BR>Gunjan
Pawel Veselov
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Green threads is thread mechanism implemented in JVM itself. It is blind and can run on any OS, so actually all threads are run in one native thread and scheduling is up to JVM.
This is disadvantageously for SMP systems, since only one processor can serve Java application.
Native threads is a mechanism based on OS threading mechanism. This allows to use features of hardware and OS. For example,there is IBM's JDK for AIX that supports native threads. The perfomance of applications can be highly imploved by this.

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With best of best regards, Pawel S. Veselov ( aka Black Angel )
With best of best regards, Pawel S. Veselov ( aka Black Angel )
John Bateman
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I learned something new today. Thanks!
I was using the BlackDown 1.1.8 "JDK" on Linux with Jserv and Jonas and I could never figure out what the green/native thread diffrence is.
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