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SubjectRe: AMIGA will use Linux, but Linux has several "multimedia-deficiencies"
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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