Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932422AbVJDNAK (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 09:00:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932424AbVJDNAK (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 09:00:10 -0400 Received: from free.hands.com ([83.142.228.128]:8582 "EHLO free.hands.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932422AbVJDNAH (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 09:00:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:59:55 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Chase Venters Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <20051004125955.GQ10538@lkcl.net> References: <20051002204703.GG6290@lkcl.net> <54300000.1128297891@[10.10.2.4]> <20051003011041.GN6290@lkcl.net> <200510022028.07930.chase.venters@clientec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510022028.07930.chase.venters@clientec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-hands-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lkcl@lkcl.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1165 Lines: 34 On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:27:45PM -0500, Chase Venters wrote: > The bottom line is that the application developers need to start being clever > with threads. yep! ah. but. see this: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-December/038300.html and think what would happen if glibc had hardware-support for semaphores and mutexes. > I think I remember some interesting rumors about Perl 6, for > example, including 'autothreading' support - the idea that your optimizer > could be smart enough to identify certain work that can go parallel. http://www.ics.ele.tue.nl/~sander/publications.php http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=582068 http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/acsd/2003/1887/00/18870237.pdf to get the above references, put in "holland parallel code analysis tools" into google.com. put in "parallel code analysis tools" into google.com for a different set. l. - 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/