>>>>> "Jimmy" == Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jimmy> I can't find the exact messages for some of these examples of their Jimmy> experience, but one post mentioned that the poster had implemented Jimmy> applications using hundreds or thousands of threads; How can this be considered anything else than an evidence of mental illness ? (I purposedly avoid attributing it to malice). Or was this simply a pointless "benchmark" ? Jimmy> Perry Metzger Jimmy> talked in another post about his and the NetBSD team's two-year-long Jimmy> ordeal to get scheduler activation working properly in the NetBSD Jimmy> kernel-and-libc package; and the author of another post had, apparently, Jimmy> individually implemented scheduler activation in a toy OS. These do not Jimmy> seem like people who are inexperienced in threads. I have less Jimmy> experience than they in this regard, which I freely admit, and which Jimmy> inclines me to believe them on this matter, especially since they are Jimmy> all in agreement. Well, if SA does not map with a minimum of a glue code to an 1:1 threading model, they've got not much to brag about. ~velco
