From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 26 15:42:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26847 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 15:10:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21625 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06820; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:26:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <3543A699.21C847E3@san.rr.com> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:26:49 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0420 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threads performance References: <199804262104.OAA24424@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > This is in support of the importance of getting some kind of > > well-performing threads into -Stable as soon as practically possible. > > One of my repeat customers who has been very happy with FreeBSD in the > > past is developing a new Unix port of one of his very successful > > programs. He asked me about FreeBSD's thread support and I told him > > (honestly at the time) that I didn't know much about it but I'd set him > > up an account on my -Stable box at home and let him test his stuff. > > 1) What version of -stable were you running? Whatever was in the repository on February 17th. I was cvsup'ing and building daily during that time period and I know that's the day he did the tests. > 2) Was it before or after Jeremy Allison's and my patches were > committed? If before, you need the patched version of the > libc_r code to have any chance of it working at all. I'm not sure, does the date above help you? > 3) Is he using C++? If so, he must use FSF g++ 2.8.x or better > with Jeremy's patches to libgcc.a to make exceptions work > with threads (the patches were committed to the g++ port, I > believe). Yes, he's using C++. I know he didn't use that version of g++ since I don't have it on my system. I also can't answer your last question, but with your permission I'll forward your post to him and ask if he's interested in working on this again. I can't discuss details of a client's project obviously, but I will say that I'm very interested in keeping him happy and it would be good for freebsd too, so I'm willing to do some legwork on this if there's hope of real progress. Thanks for your reply, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message