Thread vs job model for fine grained parallelism

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Re: Thread vs job model for fine grained parallelism

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BareMetal OS uses "jobs" instead of threads: http://vimeo.com/13423853

I was going for something similar to Apple's Grand Central Dispatch.
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Mono-tasking 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers, written entirely in Assembly
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