Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 22:37:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd Message-ID: <199511080537.WAA19254@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <2626.815804322@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 7, 95 08:18:42 pm
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> > Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library instead of using the NetBSD > > effort toget JAVA running (they also heavily modified JAVA to *use* > > a user space threads, BTW) seems like NIH. > > Hardly! Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library gives you a > thread-safe library and JAVA. Implementing NetBSD support to give you > JAVA gives you only JAVA. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist > to figure out that "1 + 1 = 2" and "1 + 0 = 1" Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library gives you a thread-safe library. Taking NetBSD's work after it's done gives you a thread-safe library. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to see the duplication of effort in doing the same thing twice. ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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