From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Philippe Anel" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> 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> <13426df10807301923n95c9e0al1ebb12df795cc101@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13426df10807301923n95c9e0al1ebb12df795cc101@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:53:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene Topicbox-Message-UUID: f81c57ee-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Can you tell us why some things are impossible to scale with 5000 posix threads (and easy to scale with 5000 plan 9 style threads) ? Is this specific to posix or linux ? Or maybe you will write a paper on this ? Phil; ----- Original Message ----- From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:23 AM Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene > 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 > >