Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:05:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:05:48 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:37125 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:05:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3D8FAD70.2010404@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:10:24 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Isaacson CC: Ingo Molnar , Bill Davidsen , Larry McVoy , Peter Waechtler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 References:

<20020923190306.D13340@hexapodia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 22 Andy Isaacson wrote: > Of course this can be (and frequently is) implemented such that there is > not one Pthreads thread per object; given simulation environments with 1 > million objects, and the current crappy state of Pthreads > implementations, the researchers have no choice. Are these object threads mostly active or inactive? Regardless, it seems obvious with today's hardware, that 1 million objects should never be one-thread-per-object, pthreads or no. That's just lazy programming. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/