On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:35, Tyler Trafford wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:55:50AM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:59:30PM +0530, Raghuram Rajagopal wrote: > > > >> And I think I have some reasons behind asking this question and not > >> just "ill-posed". > > > > The question is ill-posed in the sense that KDE and Gnome have nothing > > to do with threads. There is nothing they can do about threading. > > The kernel is encharged of that. You can make a GUI that hangs or one > > that doesn't hang just as easily in each. > > Not entirely true. The toolkits can be implemented to use threading > "well", "poorly", or not at all.
Good point. However, I don't know about you, but I am not the guru who can judge the respective toolkits and I would expect that most users of gentoo are not initmately familiar with the threading implementations of the toolkits. At least, one would have to do much testing and profiling to judge such a request. Expecting users of gentoo to be intimately aware of threading implementation of such HUGE "apps" is, well, ill-posed (no to mention the fact that no one, as far as I can tell, has been able to answer the question). If there is a difference that tips the scale towards one or the other, I can say that, as an educated guess, it is most probably not in the threading implementation of the respective thread libraries. Others have brought up more important issues (i.e., ease-of-use, memory hogginess, etc.). Ben Ricker -- Ben Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wellinx.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
