From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 18 16: 7: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E75237B423 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06536 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:07:02 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:07:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP in 2.4 (fwd) In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010418174822.03b13910@mail.etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > It seems that there is a lack of foresight here...you're losing a year or > more of engineering time and before SMPng is stablilized the IA-64 will be > out and most multiprocessor applications will be rushing to move over to that. > Yup, one could say that. But because this is an effort from volunteers, nobody's stock is losing value. I think Jordan pointed out a while back that nothing we're doing here, or in Linux for that matter, is all that new. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message