Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:12:01 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Alan Cox quote? |
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Larry McVoy writes: > Great, then we are in violent agreement on the single abstraction. > On the second part, I stand by my previous statements that threads or > processes should be used sparingly. > > All I'm doing is trying to counter all the "threads are great" hype. > This is a pretty intelligent pile of people but there are also a fair > number of people who read this list looking for nuggets of information. > If they walk away going "(a) Linux has a cool threading model, and > (b) I should only use threads if I absolutely have to do so and even > then if there are more than there are CPUs I'm probably making a > mistake", if they get that message, that's a good thing, IMHO.
New FAQ entry: http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s7-21
Yeah, it's probably a bit harsh :-)
Regards,
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