New Year, New Threading Model

Actually its the Alternative threading model (T2) on Solaris 8. Over the Christmas period we finally tested our application with Solaris's alternative threading model. Overall we are seeing a 30% improvement in performance, with a 3x reduction in context switch activity, system CPU usage is also down.

To answer the question of why did it take us so long to move to T2 - well I currently working on a project for a large corporation, and they have only just moved our production hardware from Solaris 6 to Solaris 8.