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

[robert engels]

I think if you review the current research that your assessment does not hold in the applied space. 

> On Jul 5, 2024, at 4:34 AM, Andrew Haley <aph-open at .mcom> wrote:
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> 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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