On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> Not obvious to me. In today's (well, tomorrow's) massively multicore > world, I would expect a remote call to a process in another core, with > its own instruction cache, could easily be more efficient than a local > procedure call. > well, there's remote calls and remote calls. Remote calls that go through some shared memory queue are one thing. But a remote call that goes through the kernel? You'd better have lots of work to amortize that cost. The packages I've seen do not. thanks ron
