From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <006201c3fdde$a6339030$8201a8c0@cc77109e> From: "Bruce Ellis" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <0d7bea785d989cd275b7ca67cfa6cdeb@yourdomain.dom> Subject: Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:38:35 +1100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 018fef04-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 i had trouble believing that the screeds of banter were from linus. maybe he has a ghost writer. when he did the "i don't write user programs with threads" and thru in some kernel examples, with obligatory assembly language results - well i thought what are these guys discussing? gee, i just write in limbo. threads are fun, linus, when you don't have to do all that crap to manage them. i just use "spawn", the only language support for threads. the rest is easy - i'm happy. correct or challenge on any presummption. brucee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Pike" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel > in case that wasn't clear enough, i have no idea what linus is talking > about when he says we had 'overhead' that made it 'really stupid' > 'in practice'. > > -rob