From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 01:59:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E81916A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:59:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spatula.dreamhost.com (spatula.dreamhost.com [66.33.205.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9C443D41 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:59:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@tntluoma.com) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-68-252-33-33.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net [68.252.33.33]) by spatula.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4886317D01E for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:59:14 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <0dd8dad21bafaf8c6b6831d0845e28b5@tntluoma.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Mailing List From: Timothy Luoma Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 20:59:11 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Subject: The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:59:15 -0000 I stumbled across this somehow today (don't remember where from unfortunately... I opened it in the background while reading another page and by the time I saw it, I forgot where it came from). http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm He does a good job (I think) of explaining the problems of why hyperthreading, et al don't help as much as you might think they should (or as much as I think they should). FWIW TjL