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DateTue, 24 Sep 2002 07:53:31 +0200 (CEST)
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Andy Isaacson wrote:

> > 90% of the programs that matter behave exactly like Larry has described.
> > IO is the main source of blocking. Go and profile a busy webserver or
> > mailserver or database server yourself if you dont believe it.
> 
> There are heavily-threaded programs out there that do not behave this
> way, and for which a N:M thread model is completely appropriate. [...]

of course, that's the other 10%. [or even smaller.] I never claimed M:N
cannot be viable for certain specific applications. But a generic
threading library should rather concentrate on the common 90% of the
applications.

(obviously for simulations the absolute fastest implementation would be a
pure userspace state-machine, not a threaded application - M:N or 1:1.)

	Ingo

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