sched_4BSD

[Julian Elischer]

Kamal R. Prasad wrote:

>--- Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
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>>Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
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>>>--- Lucas Holt <luke at foolishgames.com> wrote:
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>>>>Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need
>>>>more cpu time than 
>>>>vi?  
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>>>No. That is not a given.
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>>>>Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of
>>>>computation or 
>>>>because they have a lot of concurrent activity
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>>that
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>>>>might block right?
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>>>Threads are meant to take advantage of concurrency.
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>>>Maybe the freebsd implementation should implement
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>>NPTL
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>>>in entirety.
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>>NPTL?
>>New Pthreads Library from Library?
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>Yes.
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>>isn't that GPL'd?
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>No -it is a standard. The linux implementation of nptl
>is gpl'ed.
>regards
>-kamal
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so how does that differ from what we have ... a native pthreads library?

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