Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:57:58 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: AMIGA will use Linux, but Linux has several "multimedia-deficiencies" |
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On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 05:43:55AM +0000, Steve Underwood wrote: > The John Osterhout presentation is a very sane and balanced assessment of the > value of select based programming versus threads - recommended reading. I had > a similar presentation of my own once, but his is better so I threw mine > away. The only issue he doesn't adequately address is the scalability > limitation of select in multi-CPU environments. I guess it was written some > time ago, when multi-CPU systems were less significant. Perhaps he should > update it to give a properly balanced view for 1999's systems.
There are alternatives to select/poll based non-blocking IO. Zach Brown is presenting a paper on scalable IO models at the Ottawa Linux Symposium on the 22nd.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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