On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:33:21PM +0600, Max Khon wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:29:00PM +0100, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > > > Linking against -lthr (or even -lc_r!) instead of -lpthread solves gdb > > > "The program no longer exists." problem for me on RELENG_6. > > > > Well, yes, but that's not the same. While running on M:N KSE, all sorts > > of locking needs to be correct, which with non M:N threading you can get > > away with some (intentional or not) sloppiness. So debugging a fully > > threaded program with a non M:N threadlib is not always useful. > > I do not think that maintaining M:N thread lib is feasible, given the lack > of resources. Solaris has already moved from M:N to 1:1. Linux (NPTL) is 1:1 > as well.
Well, each threading system has it's own application. Having an easy way to have one multithreaded process use multiple CPUs is a big win in any case. Especially in computationally intensive tasks... Marc
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