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Kamal R. Prasad wrote:

>--- Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
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>>Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
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>>>--- Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need
>>>>more cpu time than 
>>>>vi?  
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>No. That is not a given.
>>>
>>> 
>>>
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>>>>Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of
>>>>computation or 
>>>>because they have a lot of concurrent activity
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>>>>
>>that
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>>>>might block right?
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>>>Threads are meant to take advantage of concurrency.
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>>>
>>>Maybe the freebsd implementation should implement
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>>>
>>NPTL
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>>>in entirety.
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>>NPTL?
>>New Pthreads Library from Library?
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>Yes.
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>>isn't that GPL'd?
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>No -it is a standard. The linux implementation of nptl
>is gpl'ed.
>regards
>-kamal
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>

so how does that differ from what we have ... a native pthreads library?

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>Kamal R. Prasad
>UNIX systems consultant 
>kamalp@acm.org
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>In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-).
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