[Mono-dev] Mono Continuations and MicroThreads
Tomi Valkeinen
tomba at bat.org
Fri Apr 21 02:48:20 EDT 2006
Hi,
> If you want to improve performance you could start by replacing the
> LinkedList which seems to be overkill. I think you could get along with a
> singly linked list without listnode-classes for each microthread which should
I have three lists for threads, for scheduled, waiting and sleeping
threads. I have to move the threads from one list to another. So an array
based list is a bad choice. But perhaps a singly linked list would do the
job, as you suggested, perhaps each MicroThread object having a pointer to
the next thread. That wouldn't be a beautiful implementation, but perhaps
the benefits would overweight that.
> make it a little faster and use much less memory. Also using foreach is
> resulting in the creation of an iterator and I think you don't need it.
Which foreach are you referring to? There is one in ManageSleepers(), but
the whole sleeping system is lousy implementation and should be rewritten.
> What would be cool is to implement the continuations in unsafe managed code.
Do you have ideas how this could be implemented? I don't think you can
access stack pointer and processor registers from managed code, and that
is what the native implementation does.
Thanks for feedback!
Tomi
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