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Originally Posted by gvarndell
This is a too simplistic view of the issue.
Yes, there is some weight associated context switching.
But if a single thread polls for some event for even 3 milliseconds, that wasted time is nowhere near recovered by avoiding context switches.
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You didn't account for the rest of my post.
As I said, depending on what you do with those threads affects performance. Obviously you'd want a separate thread if you're blocking for some input. Besides, that wasn't the overall point of my post.