Re: [9fans] Plan 9 and multicores/parallelism/concurrency?

["Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:08 -0400, a@9srv.net wrote:
> // But do you know of any part [of Plan 9] that would be
> // beneficial for highly-SMP systems?
> 
> Beneficial compared to what, I guess.

Lets say a typical Linux kernel. 

> The kernel's biggest contribution here is keeping processes inexpensive
> compared to unix.

Not just inexpensive, but also better aligned with how
they use compute resources (virtual vs. physical threads)
and memory resources.

> // It'll be interesting to see how a single Plan9 kernel scales on
> // something like a Batoka box (256 hardware threads per box,
> // 64 physical cores).
> 
> Send me one and I'll see if I can find out. ☺

Speaking of which -- is SPARC port of Plan9 still alive?

Thanks,
Roman.