How well does your operating system juggle 200 threads at once? In this technical article at IBM's developerWorks website, performance expert Ed Bradford tests Linux, Windows 2000, and Windows XP in a thread-management bake-off. Ed puts his systems to the test using a program that exercises a machine's ability to process multiple threads. The article shows how to exercise a machine's ability to process multiple threads, using a program that performs measurable work in each thread and then demonstrates the overhead of performing the same computation in multiple threads. Includes some code.

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