Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 09:53:57 +0300 From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> To: "Martin Blapp" <mb@imp.ch>, "Alexander Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic during openoffice build with libkse Message-ID: <012001c32741$68dc9570$812a40c1@PETEX31> References: <20030530092035.K94836@cvs.imp.ch> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10305300933150.10836-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <20030530101451.135d8ad2.ak03@gte.com> <20030530211205.U94836@cvs.imp.ch>
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> > What about HTT ? Can we use that to emulate several cpu's ? > > HTT is "almost there" but it still has constraints on execution that do not exist if running on true SMP environment. One can catch most race conditions with HTT though and additionally, in threaded environment, actually in many cases derive performance benefits from it. Specially when running X, there are mostly two applications active, the client and server and having two execution units without the need for context switches gives the experience "smoothness". Pete
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