At 4:26 PM +0300 5/11/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I thought this would be interesting.....
>http://oss.software.ibm.com/pthreads/
>http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/pthreads
>
>Short desc :
> IBM is creating a new generation of Posix Threads, which will be
>supported by the Linux kernel. These threads multiplex user-mode
>threads onto kernel threads, thus giving the advantages of fast
>thread creation/deletion, and as much concurrency as the hardware
>will support.
"Those who don't understand VMS are doomed to re-implement it". :)
You've just described how the DECThreads version of PThreads work.
DEC was doing this with Tru64 and VMS for quite a number of years. If
your code is good, it's quite a performance win.
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Dan
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