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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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