From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 15:39:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA22262 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA22254 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA16505; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:34:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606202234.PAA16505@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: JDK To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:34:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu, owensc@enc.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199606201352.IAA09327@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Jun 20, 96 08:52:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > i think i'll write to the guy. his comments on that page are quite > > revealing... that freebsd needs some more work to better handle the > > threads. anyone have more info on this? (i have no idea what the > > date is on that page, and things might have changed a lot.) > > > One thing that is on my list (and perhaps the next thing that I am > going to do) is to support true sharing of address spaces between > processes. That will allow better support of certain thread packages > as I have heard. John, before you do this, there is now a kernel threads implementation for FreeBSD (the author announced it on the SMP list). It seems to address all of the issues. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.