--- Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need > more cpu time than > vi?
No. That is not a given. > Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of > computation or > because they have a lot of concurrent activity that > might block right? > Threads are meant to take advantage of concurrency. Maybe the freebsd implementation should implement NPTL in entirety. > > On Mar 1, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > > > > If you make 1000 threads, you get 1000 slots on > the scheduler. (last > > time I looked.. > > Let me know if I'm wrong). > > depends on whether it is defined to execute in system scope or not. regards -kamal ===== ------------------------------------------------------------ Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-). ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
