From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 21:26:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C8C16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:26:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.foolishgames.com (mail.foolishgames.com [216.55.178.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B718F43D31 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:26:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laffer1@mail.foolishgames.com) Received: from mail.foolishgames.com (localhost.foolishgames.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.foolishgames.com (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j23LQL2n009136 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:26:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from laffer1@mail.foolishgames.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.foolishgames.com: Host localhost.foolishgames.com [127.0.0.1] claimed to be mail.foolishgames.com Received: from localhost (laffer1@localhost)j23LQLL4009133; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:26:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from laffer1@mail.foolishgames.com) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:26:21 -0800 (PST) From: laffer1 To: Julian Elischer In-Reply-To: <4227712F.5060906@elischer.org> Message-ID: <20050303132600.P8921@mail.foolishgames.com> References: <20050303041042.3198.qmail@web52709.mail.yahoo.com> <4227712F.5060906@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:36:07 +0000 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Lucas Holt cc: kamalp@acm.org Subject: Re: sched_4BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:26:39 -0000 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 wrote: >> >> >>> Kamal R. Prasad wrote: >>> >>> >>>> --- Lucas Holt 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" >