On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 08:49, David Mosberger wrote: > > I think the web pages should be most relevant to the HPTC (high > performance technical computing) community, since this is the > community that is most likely affected by some of the performance > oddities of the O(1) scheduler. Certainly anyone using OpenMP on > Intel platforms (x86 and ia64) may want to take a look. oh you mean the OpenMP broken behavior of calling sched_yield() in a tight loop to implement spinlocks ? I'd guess that instead of second guessing the runtime, they should use the pthreads primitives which are the fastest for the platform one would hope.. (eg futexes nowadays)