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    SubjectRe: Good point of Linux over Windows NT


    On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

    > > You are not talking to an NT supporter here. Linux SMP is in its
    > > infancy. And NO thats not what async IO means. You have to give credit
    >
    > Linux SMP is quite nicely done for CPU intensive tasks. I/O intensive SMP
    > is poor on the intel port (its quite passable on the sparc) We also have fully
    ^^^^^
    > working async I/O. If you look at clone() and learn to use it right. Note that
    > clone is so fast there isnt an overhead issue.
    >
    > Its not my fault you don't look very hard.
    >
    > Alan
    >
    >

    We are not discussing architectures here but the fact that SMP on Linux
    is in your own words "PASSABLE" - do you actually think that sounds
    anywhere close to "TOP-NOTCH"???

    Y

    P.S. Is spinning in a tight loop in do_select() an example of async IO?


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