Re: Remote fork() and Parallel Programming

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:40:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Larry McVoy wrote:

> : > dynamic load balancing static load balancing across machines
> : > across machines + dynamic load balancing within
> : > (SMP) machines.
> :
> : The items listed under "BAD" are more powerful that the "GOOD" ones:
>
> Agreed. it does not follow from that, however, that they should be
> implemented. One could implement "tar" in the kernel and that would
> be a more powerful thing than open/close/read/write. It would also
> be a bad idea.

In that case, if any "bad ideas" get implemented, could someone
do a kernel mode version of Netscape 4? Any little speedup would
help.. ;o)


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