Re: aio

Cameron Simpson
2001-12-20T02:37:49Z

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 05:20:46PM -0800, David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
| From: Bill Huey <billh@tierra.ucsd.edu>
| Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
| Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
| relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
| themselves.

Maybe. I'm good at that.

| Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
| certain.

Of itself, maybe. (Though an attitude like yours is a core reason Java is
spreading as slowly as it is - much like Linux desktops...)

However, heavily threaded apps regardless of language are hardly likely
to disappear; threads are the natural way to write many many things. And
if the kernel implements threads as on Linux, then the scheduler will
become much more important to good performance.
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

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