On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:23:06 +0100 Sven Panne wrote: >> Nevertheless, you make a good point: Better support for "real" >> multi-threading is definitely an area where I'd like to see some >> improvement for the next non-patchlevel release of GHC. I'm still >> unconvinced that the current optional RTS support for mixed >> green/native threads is the right way to go. It looks to me like a >> workaround for poor OS support for really lightweight threads.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:33:44AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Which of course has been improving greatly recently - on Linux at least. > The 2.6 kernel will apparently have threading on par with Solaris. In > fact, the next Linux pthreads library looks as though it will be based > on a 1:1 model rather than a M:N model because it is simpler and (with > the recent threading improvements) performs better. > So that means that all of ghc's major platforms (Solaris, Linux, Win32) > will have good OS thread support in the near future. 1:1 threading is inferior by virtue of resource scalability on 32-bit machines. This is not the final word. Bill _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
