> Thread Synchronisation: Performance Breakthrough The HotSpot JVM is good news. JavaPP/occam will simply ride on the back of it. JavaPP offers security through a simpler and theoretically sound programming/design model, imposing `practically' no additional overhead on that imposed by the underlying JVM. Sun don't actually quote any times yet for the HotSpot `breakthrough' synchronization mechanism. KRoC now sports a 122 nanosecond context switch on an UltraSPARC, still using the transputer algorithms designed and implemented 15 years ago ... > For Developers > > * The cost of writing highly factored, fine-grain code in an > object-oriented style will drop dramatically > * Don't worry about the cost of thread synchronization I think they've been reading someone's occam course notes! Cheers, Peter.