[External] : Re: Experience using virtual threads in EA 23-loom+4-102

[Andrew Haley]

On 7/3/24 18:18, Sam Pullara wrote:
> As a developer trying to use this stuff, I 100% agree that fair is better. If I need something that isn't fair, I can do that myself.

But fairness costs. There's a well-known branch of welfare economics
which studies the "Efficiency-Fairness Trade-off". The limiting case of
perfect fairness, where everybody gets the same, is that no one gets
anything. So it is with thread scheduling, too. We must choose a parameter
which is the degree of unfairness we'll tolerate, or conversely, the
reduction of efficiency we'll tolerate.

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