On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, John Kacur wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > > No major Java vendor currently uses Posix threads either.
> > >
> > > Of course they do, why would you think they don't?
> >
> > Because I talked to their engineers and asked them as part of finding out about
> > stuff for the LSB.
> >
> > Alan
> >
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> Ahh, maybe I should have identified myself, I develop the jit compiler
> for IBM as part of the ia32 team, and I'm their Linux person, and I can
> ensure you that we are using posix threads. (met you on the bus at OLS)
is this a portability decision? 'cause i can't imagine it being a
performance decision :) pthread semantics just aren't required by java
threads.
back when IBM's java/linux threading performance results became known i
wrote up a proposal for a m:n JVM ... i'll include it again below.
-dean
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