Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:39:28 -0500 | | From | Steven Walter <> | | Subject | Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) |
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:30:02AM +0200, J . A . Magallon wrote: > Take a programmer comming from other system to linux. If he wants multi- > threading and protable code, he will choose pthreads. And you say to him: > do it with 'clone', it is better. Answer: non protable. Again: do it > with fork(), it is fast in linux. Answer: better for linux, but it is a > real pain in other systems. > > And worst, you are allowing people to program based on a tool that will give > VERY diferent performance when ported to other systems. They use fork(). > They port their app to solaris. The performance sucks. It is not Solaris > fault. It is linux fast fork() that makes people not looking for the > correct standard tool for what they want todo.
This sounds to my like "Linux is making other OSes look bad. Cut it out." -- -Steven In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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