Performance of p6/SPARC

• Overheads of p6/SPARC primitives:

  Operation	Time
  Method Call without Synchronization	0.2usec.
  Method Call with Synchronization	0.6usec.
  (Setting Abstract States)	2.2usec.
  Suspension	28.2usec.
  Scheduling	14.7usec.
  Resume from Suspension	21.3usec.

  • Method calls are sufficiently fast.
  • State setting, suspend/resume is not so fast (due to Solaris thread library implementation).