Messages in this thread | | | From | (Larry McVoy) | Subject | Re: Remote fork() and Parallel programming | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:26:02 -0700 |
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: If you put your megaphone down a moment and looked Larry, you will it also : supports distributed semaphores just nicely.
It supports messages too. So what? The topic is shared memory programs that are going to run on this DIPC DSM platform unmodified. In order for your point to be meaningful, there had better a large class of multithreaded applications which use Sys5 semaphores as their synchronization mechanism.
So perhaps you'd like to show the long list of multithreaded applications which use Sys5 semaphores? And while you are doing that, you might also show the somewhat longer list that use Solaris or Posix semaphores and mutex's. And then you can explain to the unwashed masses how the Sys5 stuff does a system call while the Posix stuff uses shared memory with atomic operations and is several orders of magnitude faster than the Sys5 stuff.
I'll be happy to put down my megaphone down when you start guiding people in a sensible direction. You are leading unsuspecting people down a path that many of tried before and has been repeatedly shown to be nothing but a waste of time.
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