[Mono-devel-list] Mono on a multipocessor

[Gonzalo Paniagua Javier]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 16:44 +0100, Alex Chudnovsky wrote:
> Sunny wrote:

> I understand desire to have maximum compatibility with actual .NET, but 
> surely having higher limits on number of threads is not something that 
> would be bad? From what I understand Windows Socket IO uses Completion 
> Ports (whatever it is) that are supposedly more efficient, if thats 
> indeed the case, then I suppose Mono will need more threads available to 
> make up for having less efficient socket IO?

There's are no threads from the threadpool blocking for IO. See
http://www.mono-project.com/Article:IOChanges