Subject: Re: 2.0 ... what's in it for me?
To: Mac 68k NetBSD <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/30/2004 12:43:45
Allen Briggs wrote:
>That's usually Symmetric Multi-Processing. That's not the only change
>by a long shot. Erik posted a link to the changelog. There's a lot of
>good stuff in there, including a rather nice (in my opinion, anyway ;-)
>native threading library.
>
>
Yes, I thought good threading was something of a prerequisite to SMP.
What does threading do for us on a non-MP system? Can the kernel
scheduler get things done more efficiently with threaded apps?
Tim
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