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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:22:33 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:
> David Schwartz wrote:
>
> > 	The main reason I write multithreaded apps for single CPU systems is to
> > protect against ambush. Consider, for example, a web server. Someone sends it
> > an obscure request that triggers some code that's never run before and has to
> > fault in. If my application were single-threaded, no work could be done until
> > that page faulted in from disk.
>
> This is interesting--I hadn't considered this as most of my work for the
> past while has been on embedded systems with everything pinned in ram.

On an ftp server (or movie server, or ...) you CAN'T pin everything
in RAM.

Rik
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