Subject: Re: 1:1 threading model
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/10/2003 20:24:00
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:07:36PM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 08:01:56PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > > But compared to what?
> > 
> > The current clone(2) implementation in Linux.
> 
> That's not hard to do ;-) The problem with claims like "it's very fast"
> or "it's faster than X", is that very few people back it up with actual
> data. I'm not putting the new linux threads down, maybe they are quite
> good, but it's just impossible to tell without actual consistent benchmark
> comparisons.

For that matter, Sun's paper would be helpful. It includes actual
benchmark results with two models.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>