sched_4BSD
laffer1
laffer1 at mail.foolishgames.com
Thu Mar 3 21:26:39 GMT 2005
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 at elischer.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> --- Lucas Holt <luke at 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 at acm.org
>>
>> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice,
>> there is:-).
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
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