Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:01:38 +0300 From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LinuxThreads replacement Message-ID: <03cd01c34a3a$5c0d25f0$812a40c1@PETEX31> References: <007601c3467b$5f20e960$020aa8c0@aims.private> <004d01c348ae$583084f0$812a40c1@PETEX31> <3F12EF5A.71249E4D@mindspring.com>
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> > Threads are for people who can't write finite state automatons. > Although this is OT, I have to disagree with this. Due to the limited interfaces between kernel and user spaces, threads apply nicer than very large condition sets to system which need to take in hundreds or thousands of inputs. > > SMP scaling is an argument for threads. It's also an argument for > processes. > True. Pete
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