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....can be described in terms of a cost continuum on which there are three major points of reference: heavyweight, middleweight, and lightweight, for which thread management overheads are on the order of thousands, hundreds, and tens of secs, respectively. Kernels supporting heavyweight threads [26, 32, 35] make no distinction between a thread, the dynamic component of a program, and its address space, the static component. Threads and address spaces are created, scheduled, and destroyed as single entities. Because an address space has a large amount of baggage, such as open file descriptors, page ....
Rccm D. ^N TOMPSON, K. The Unix time-sharing system. Commun. ACM 17, 7 (July 1974), 365-375.
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