Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:08:59PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
In contrast, the simple silicon support scales wonderfully well. Suddenly
libraries can be thread-safe _and_ efficient on UP too. You get to eat
your cake and have it too.
By buying new hardware and only caring about people using the magic
architecture. No thanks.
That is the problem, waiting for Intel to do hardware magic, or even to
decide IF they do it. Like assuming that everyone has SMP because a few
percent of the users have dual core chips. The majority of the markey
will have SMP someday, but ignoring the current status isn't realistic.
Maybe I'll implement this some weekend.
Love to see it, I'm only semi-convinced it can be done in a way which
actually produces significant benefits.
--
-bill davidsen ([email protected])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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