From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 20:40:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29879 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29871 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:40:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00843; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:40:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803030440.XAA00843@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: from Tom at "Mar 2, 98 05:49:40 pm" To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:40:21 -0500 (EST) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, smp@csn.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom said: > > How is it that Linux has moved so much faster in this area? Or have > they? > Not really. When things like SMP are worked on in FreeBSD, things move pretty quickly. If anything, we are just a big more sporadic due to less manpower. > > It seems to me that they even have kernel threading too, although it > seems to me that their threads are a bit heavy (almost pseudo-processes). > So will we in 3.0. (I already have the infrastructure, and work is kind of in progress for a good API interface.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message