Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
--- Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
isn't that GPL'd?
On Mar 1, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
If you make 1000 threads, you get 1000 slots on
the scheduler. (last
time I looked..
Let me know if I'm wrong).
depends on whether it is defined to execute in system
scope or not.
I presume you have looked at it recently then..
I have not looked at the linux scheduler in a while..
how do they stop 100o threads from getting 1000 shots at the scheduler?
regards
-kamal
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