Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1

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Peter Waechtler:
> [ unattributed -- please don't discard attributions ]

> Having multiple threads doing real work including IO means more
> blocking IO and therefore more context switches.

On the other hand, having to multiplex in userspace requires calls to
poll() et al, _and_ explicitly handling state which the kernel needs
to handle anyway -- including locking and all that crap.

Given that an efficient and fairly-low-cost 1:1 implementation is
demonstrably possible ;-) the necessity to do any kind of n:m work
strikes me as extremely low.

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Matthias Urlichs      http://smurf.noris.de     ICQ:20193661    AIM:smurfixx
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