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From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org>
To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Subject: Re: libkse -> libpthreads
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Narvi wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Narvi wrote:
> >
> > > At least for the moment it is not clear that one of teh libraries is a
> > > winner and will eliminate the other, so it would be evil to force people
> >
> > What's not clear about it?  libkse is a superset of the functionality
> > of libthr.  Seems pretty straightforward to me that the long-term
> > winner is libkse.
> >
> 
> This assumes that libkse M:N model will provide supperior performance and
> scalability, and this is not clear. Or does merely the fact that itis M:N
> somehow make it more winning contender?

The whole idea behind implementing M:N is performance and scalability
under heavy loads.  True, whether or not it beats out anything else in the
short term may be unclear.  But the mere fact that it is M:N indicates to
me that it is the target to shoot for.

Geoff