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Date:      Sat, 31 May 2003 00:26:09 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet.com>
Subject:   Re: Transition plans: libkse->libpthread
Message-ID:  <3ED85911.6B534E02@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10305301945590.10348-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <00c401c3273d$b59a9140$812a40c1@PETEX31>

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Petri Helenius wrote:
> What are the observed benefits on running a threaded application with 1:1
> threads instead of the M:N libkse model?

You get to context switch in PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM because you
give away your quantum to the system, instead of another thread
in your same process.

Wait, that's not a benefit...

-- Terry



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