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Sunday, March 12, 2006

Better Scaling through application level threading

Better Scaling through application level threading (via Steve Dekorte). It turns out that SQL Server uses a cooperative threading model internally to achieve higher performance than they could using the native OS scheduler. This is what languages like Smalltalk and Io do as well.

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