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pahihu <pahihu@gmail.com> writes:
> Do you have any numbers comparing Pthread vs. old tasker.fs based
> multi-tasking ?

I remember being able to task switch around 20k times/second on an old
small 300mhz ARM board.  The board had 64mb of ram and I ran a Python
program on it that used around 20 threads and it wasn't a problem.  On a
full sized x86 server I've run 1000s of threads and that works too, but
millions probably wouldn't.