Yep - and both derive from this 10 year old measurement of context switching: "Performance Measurements of Threads in Java and Processes in Erlang" http://www

Yep - and both derive from this 10 year old measurement of context switching: "Performance Measurements of Threads in Java and Processes in Erlang" http://www.sics.se/~joe/ericsson/du98024.html http://www.sics.se/~joe/ericsson/du98024.html