From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:44:58 +0100 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Got thread experience? In-Reply-To: <3a2427bcd4288f678b00408a03f4b282@terzarima.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47210127.8080107@gmail.com> <3a2427bcd4288f678b00408a03f4b282@terzarima.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: da16166e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 threads on inmos transputers didn't share memory. the threads were scheduled by the processor itself (zero context-switch time, which was nice), but could just as easily be on separate processors - the code couldn't tell (apart from the fact that there were only four channels out of each processor) i don't *think* you could pass shared references around, but it was a long time ago.