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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