Re: Does Python Need Virtual Threads? (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

Paul Rubin <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Jun 2025 14:33:28 -0700

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> writes:
>> Let's see how CPython holds up with a million OS threads running.
> Linux can already run hundreds of thousands of processes/threads 

To misquote Austin Powers, "one MILLLLLION threads".  Here Erlang
does it in less than 1GB of memory:

https://hauleth.dev/post/beam-process-memory-usage/