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Check-in Number: 515
Date: 2001-Jun-19 19:13:40 (local)
2001-Jun-19 17:13:40 (UTC)
User:rse
Branch:
Comment: Add my notes about threading to not forget it
Tickets:
Inspections:
Files:
ossp-pkg/srpc/EVAL      1.6 -> 1.7     4 inserted, 2 deleted

ossp-pkg/srpc/EVAL 1.6 -> 1.7

--- EVAL 2001/06/19 17:08:55     1.6
+++ EVAL 2001/06/19 17:13:40     1.7
@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@
   threading. In C++, for instance, the behavior of exceptions within a
   thread are totally unspecified. Furthermore, user space threads do
   not achieve the performance of kernel threads, nor are they
-  portable.
-
+  portable (RSE: Hmmmm... I'm not sure this really holds, because
+  evaluation showed that 1. user-space dispatching is usually faster
+  than dispatching in kernel-space and 2. GNU Pth proofed that
+  user-space threading can be done in a very portable way).
 
 o MRPC, http://www.tildeslash.org/mrpc.html
 

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