From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10807301923n95c9e0al1ebb12df795cc101@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:23:33 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60807301848n7e2f0f52m5424707ddd02f746@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <488B6EE7.3080100@mtu.edu> <1217421120.5036.34.camel@goose.sun.com> <13426df10807300810s4d854612ib7597a9463f7f02f@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60807301636h53149a9du80385a3e42a1a01a@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10807301702i38369688o8633274c9e94dcc5@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60807301848n7e2f0f52m5424707ddd02f746@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene Topicbox-Message-UUID: f80128a2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:48 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > Does Plan 9 Port help? I mean, libthread on Plan 9 Port alone could be > worth a ton to me in some situations. > Concurrent programming for the win? probably not for this community. When we had plan9port in xcpu we got nothing but complaints. This in spite of the fact that some things are impossible to scale with 5000 posix threads, and easy to scale with 5000 plan 9 style threads. ron