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From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@yahoo.com>
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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



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Kamal R. Prasad
UNIX systems consultant 
kamalp@acm.org

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-).
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