begin quoting Christopher Smith as of Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:00:58PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > > I wonder if this is a factor in introducing threads into the TCL core? > > If they can show a major speedup by changing to a new CPU, it'll > > do a lot for TCL among the performance-minded crowd. > > Given the overhead TCL imposes, I find it hard to believe that this is > really about major performance improvements (process overheads just > aren't that major). I'd buy it more along the lines that it just made it > easier to solve certain kinds of problems.
Briefly glancing at the API, it looks like a thin wrapper around pthreads -- which makes it a bolt-on-the-side improvement. Hm. Some packaging efforts have gone on as well. Maybe it's time to update my Tcl/Tk book.... [snip] > > At SCALE, they said 4 threads per core. > > Damn, you were there and I didn't see you! ;-) Or you saw me but didn't recognize me. . o O ( I need to get a good picture of myself up on the web somewhere... ) > > I wish they'd make a Blade 100-class machine (cheap-as-in-beer) > > with a Niagra CPU. > > Niagra isn't exactly all that. I had several people warn me that their > experiences with it had not exactly lived up to the hype. It appears to > very much be a case of YMMV. It always is. Doesn't stop me from wanting a $1000 Sun Workstation with a Niagra processor... -- Some folks here have seen my computer room... Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
