"Richard L. Hamilton" wrote: [snip] > > Hmmm... that'd be a close shave. Having worked with > > UltraSPARC T2s quite a bit, I'd say that the T2 is > > still pretty weak for the desktop workloads, > > precisely because of his single-thread performance. > > You'd have to have software that was highly optimized > > for either threading, or that was designed around > > spawning child processes ala Apache httpd or ISC's > > named. > > Java and browsers are already multithreaded, [snip]
Small correction: AFAIK the only browser which is fully threaded (e.g. layout engine, plugins, networking etc.) is "Opera" (AFAIK "Konqueror" is fully threaded too... but I am not sure...). The Mozilla family of browsers+applications (e.g. FireFox, Mozilla/SeaMonkey, ThunderBird) only uses helper threads for stuff like networking while the layout engine+plugins all run in the same thread (threading in the layout engine+plugins was discussed long ago and rejected because it requires more or less a rewrite from scratch of the layout engine or having tons of locks in the code... and many years ago we simply thought that no system will get so many CPUs/cores that something like this makes sense (in the meantime the world has changed... ;-/ )) and AFAIK the remaining browsers (e.g. "w3m", "lynx" etc.) are completely single-threaded. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
