On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:

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> Just because there aren't many apps that you know of doesn't mean  
> there aren't any at all, nor that there is no potential for growth  
> in this area.   There are a lot of apps that use state threads,  
> which is essentially a non-preemptive analog to scheduler  
> activations.   This is very useful for applications that have to  
> handle a lot of small tasks that have to process work pipelines  
> where each step in the pipeline involves a wait for some event to  
> occur - either another thread to finish doing something, or for I/O  
> to complete.

The right model for that is to use a continuation.  Threads by their  
nature have stacks and other resources that make them too heavyweight  
to be appropriate for this type of processing.

-- thorpej