Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:38:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent face to face threads talks. Message-ID: <199912130138.RAA04644@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:43:36 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912121637510.26823-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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> > > During the proceedings, it became very clear that only a small number of > > attendees have taken the time to perform any substantial research on the > > topic. None of the ideas being discussed are new; they've all been > > looked at many, many years ago. If we're going to maintain our > > reputation for careful implementation of time-tested ideas and > > techniques, we need to avail ourselves of the work of others, and that > > means hunting down and reading the large volume of research output on the > > topic. > > The discussion was not so much a description of all that has been done > in the past but a discussion of some of the ideas that we have already > narrowed down to given that we want to implement it in something vaguely > related to the current system. I think a lot of the discussion was > from the perspective of: "What can we implement in arealistic time > scale". It wasn't so much that; a lot of it was "how about this way" followed by "that's a 12-year-old idea and it doesn't work". That's time wasted that we don't have, hence the comment. > > I know that Terry has a reading list, and I'm sure that others do as > > well. I think it'd be to our great advantage to have these lists > > distributed as well as a central repository of papers and references > > created so that we pull ourselves past the discussing of half-baked ideas > > and avoid several years worth of wheel reinvention. > > We've already published a list of threading related papers on this mailing > list but I am sure we can do it again. Just posting the list isn't enough; we need a central repository that we can post this stuff on. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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