Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:10:42 -0800 (PST) From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@yahoo.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, kamalp@acm.org Cc: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> Subject: Re: sched_4BSD Message-ID: <20050303041042.3198.qmail@web52709.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <42261D95.9020506@elischer.org>
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--- Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > > > Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > > >--- Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need > >>more cpu time than > >>vi? > >> > >> > > > >No. That is not a given. > > > > > > > >>Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of > >>computation or > >>because they have a lot of concurrent activity > that > >>might block right? > >> > >> > >> > >Threads are meant to take advantage of concurrency. > > >Maybe the freebsd implementation should implement > NPTL > >in entirety. > > > > > NPTL? > New Pthreads Library from Library? Yes. > isn't that GPL'd? > No -it is a standard. The linux implementation of nptl is gpl'ed. regards -kamal ===== ------------------------------------------------------------ Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant kamalp@acm.org In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-). ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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