From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: more questions about threads... Date: 2000/04/05 Message-ID: <3163949210384068@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 607197877 References: <8buulu$jp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38ea854a$0$21260@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu> <38EB2B22.B3AA3273@pindar.com> <3163944702587593@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 954961761 25139 195.0.192.66 (5 Apr 2000 19:09:21 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Apr 2000 19:09:21 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Tim Bradshaw | I doubt performance of sunos 4.1.3 says anything about recent solaris | as that was before all the multiprocessor support in sunos 5 (I'm not | even sure how much code they share, probably very little). note that I was talking about the consumption of PIDs, not performance. this has to do with the number of scripts and invoked interpreters and such, which may or may not impact performance. what I was suggesting was that Linux is very heavily script-and-interpreters-oriented, while BSD- based Unices have traditionally been less so than AT&T-based Unices, for whatever this is worth. in any case, I would expect Linux to be faster at forking _because_ it is used so much more. Linux was heavily into this mode of thinking long before it had SMP support. #:Erik