Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:26:21 -0800 (PST) From: laffer1 <laffer1@mail.foolishgames.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: kamalp@acm.org Subject: Re: sched_4BSD Message-ID: <20050303132600.P8921@mail.foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <4227712F.5060906@elischer.org> References: <20050303041042.3198.qmail@web52709.mail.yahoo.com> <4227712F.5060906@elischer.org>
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This looks like a linux thing to me... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPTL If its a spec, i'd like to know how. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > >> --- Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: >> >> >>> Kamal R. Prasad wrote: >>> >>> >>>> --- Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need >>>>> more cpu time than vi? >>>>> >>>> No. That is not a given. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of >>>>> computation or because they have a lot of concurrent activity >>>>> >>> that >>> >>>>> might block right? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Threads are meant to take advantage of concurrency. >>>> >>>> Maybe the freebsd implementation should implement >>>> >>> NPTL >>> >>>> in entirety. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> NPTL? >>> New Pthreads Library from Library? >>> >> Yes. >> >>> isn't that GPL'd? >>> >>> >> No -it is a standard. The linux implementation of nptl >> is gpl'ed. >> regards >> -kamal >> > > so how does that differ from what we have ... a native pthreads library? > >> >> >> ===== >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> Kamal R. Prasad >> UNIX systems consultant kamalp@acm.org >> >> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, >> there is:-). >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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