Some specific questions about 5.x

[Miguel Mendez]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:35:37 -0800
Lev Walkin <vlm at netli.com> wrote:

Hi,

> What about Solaris' migration towards 1:1 model from the N:M one they
> had supported for years already? Who are insane, Solaris folks (moving
> towards Linux) or Free/NetBSD ones (migrating to the old Solaris'
> behavior)?

I haven't done Solaris development for a while, but iirc, Sun's
statement on the matter is that developers have to consider which
paradigm fits their application best. Solaris supports both schemes, 1:1
and N:M. Certain applications benefit from the former, other from the
latter. I don't they're going to drop N:M anytime soon. I think the
reason why Linux does 1:1 is that it started as a hack of the process
creation code. Implementing a real N:M system is more complicated.
Perhaps it should be interesting to study in which cases a 1:1 threading
system is better.

Cheers,
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