From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 27 1:15:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE1B14E9D for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 01:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28396; Thu, 27 May 1999 01:15:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd028377; Thu May 27 01:15:18 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA12655; Thu, 27 May 1999 01:15:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905270815.BAA12655@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Note on my experience with Netscape 4.6 To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 08:15:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199905270249.VAA08912@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at May 26, 99 09:49:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > How is it stability-wise? That seems to be the major reason most people use > > the Linux version over the native one. > > So-far about the same. There are some sites that seem to cause problems > with both of 'em. Linux kernel threads have similar problems on preemption, but since they aren't as concurrent as FreeBSD user space or Macintosh threads, and they tend to serialize work in the scheduler, the Linux threads are not so obviously broken -- but they are broken (yes, even on Linux). Netscape needs someone who actually understands the concepts of threading at a much more detailed level than just one or two platforms to revise their threading code for them. I'd probably do that, but my current free time project is hacking up SLPv2 and Salutation implementations; they only bear on Mozilla in that you no longer need to configure my version of the browser. At all. Period. 8^). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message