Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:18:55 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: kamalp@acm.org Cc: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> Subject: Re: sched_4BSD Message-ID: <4227712F.5060906@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050303041042.3198.qmail@web52709.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050303041042.3198.qmail@web52709.mail.yahoo.com>
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Kamal R. Prasad wrote: >--- Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > > > >>Kamal R. Prasad wrote: >> >> >> >>>--- Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need >>>>more cpu time than >>>>vi? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>No. That is not a given. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of >>>>computation or >>>>because they have a lot of concurrent activity >>>> >>>> >>that >> >> >>>>might block right? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Threads are meant to take advantage of concurrency. >>> >>> >>>Maybe the freebsd implementation should implement >>> >>> >>NPTL >> >> >>>in entirety. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>NPTL? >>New Pthreads Library from Library? >> >> >Yes. > > >>isn't that GPL'd? >> >> >> >No -it is a standard. The linux implementation of nptl >is gpl'ed. >regards >-kamal > > so how does that differ from what we have ... a native pthreads library? > > >===== >------------------------------------------------------------ >Kamal R. Prasad >UNIX systems consultant >kamalp@acm.org > >In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-). >------------------------------------------------------------ > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >
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