From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 24 3:24:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C057114FC2 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 03:24:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00962 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:24:40 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA33358 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:24:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F6F14A08; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 03:23:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p19-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.148]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id UAA12468; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 20:22:27 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <383BC9D9.B7E721C9@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 20:19:54 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey Cc: Daniel Eischen , Julian Elischer , Nate Williams , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, jasone@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey wrote: > > OK, then let me ask another question: are we at all concerned about maybe > following an already established thread API, or are we going to create our > own? Things like user threads probably could work as then are now (albeit > perhaps with only minor changes in performance) and stuff with runtimes > like Java wouldn't care, but big programs like XFree86 and Netscape, and > specially made daemons trying to do things like mass factoring, > that are going to really want to manipulate real concurrency levels, > they're going to have to be aware of our real underlying API, so making a > unique one will complicate a lot of lives. But do they? Do Netscape, XFree86 or any other program you know of make use of underlying APIs instead of lib-exported, POSIX-compliant APIs? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Then again maybe not going to heaven would be a blessing. Relkin liked a certain amount of peace and harmony, since there'd been a pronounced shortage of them in his own life; however, nothing but peace and harmony, forever and forever? He wasn't sure about that. And no beer? Very dubious proposition." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message