Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
--- Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
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?
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Kamal R. Prasad
UNIX systems consultant
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice,
there is:-).
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