Re: AMIGA will use Linux, but Linux has several "multimedia-deficiencies"

Bill Huey (billh@mag.ucsd.edu)
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:56:12 -0700 (PDT)


> An application program written with threads has to deal with most of the
> issues that we have to suffer with kernel programming (synchronisation,
> memory coherency, non deterministic behaviour, limited stack size, etc...)
> Such programs are painfull to maintain, especially when you haven't
> written it yourself. They are poorly portable and may encounter weird
> performance problems depending on the plat-form (not only UNIX)
> implementation of threads, if, by chance, you have been able to port it.

The above leads me to think that you don't do much of this kind of
programming using high quality well thought out libraries.

bill

> Regards,
> Gérard.

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