On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2000, Igor Khasilev wrote:
> 
> > 2) Does anybody tried to use pth on top of native os threads. This will
> > allow to use SMP with pth. 
> 
> Why do you need OS _threads_ for this? It should be sufficient to fork
> _processes_ and let the underlaying OS distribute those over the processors,
> shouldn't it?

I'd this you'd need this for the same reason that any program wants
threads instead of multiple processes:  implicit shared memory.  I like
this idea.

Shane

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