A bit off-topic, but I'm amazed at how well linux handles large numbers of threads. I have a program that runs bots against each other playing the game of go,

A bit off-topic, but I'm amazed at how well linux handles large numbers of threads. I have a program that runs bots against each other playing the game of go, where each go-bot plays every other go-bot one hundred times, which is highly cpu intensive. I launch one go-bot at a time which is battling every other go-bot it hasn't already played against, often with close to 900 threads running go-bot battles at once. I have six cores with two hyper-threads each and all of them are pegged at 100% usage for hours on end by this program. The processes are running at normal priority, i.e. not changed via "nice". When I first tried this, I was prepared to hard-boot since I was almost sure it would make my desktop unusable, but it didn't. I can even play some fairly cpu- and gpu-intensive games without too many hiccups while this is going on. If I wasn't paying attention, I probably wouldn't know they were running.