Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries

In article <3239e26c.798075912_at_news.dtc.net>, John Matzen <wizard_at_mrinc.com> wrote:
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>>John Stevens <jstevens_at_bamboo.verinet.com> wrote in article
>><516t1c$9ru_at_bamboo.verinet.com>...
>>> >| Or even (ick!) SCO.
>>> >
>>> >Support 'em both. SCO has been less trouble.
>>>
>>> What makes SCO or Solaris more real than Linux?
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>Because, SCO UnixWare and Solaris (and NT, and OS/2, and even Windows
>95 (!flames,plez)) support multithreaded applications. Linux does

What are you talking about? Linux has both user space and kernel space threads. I also haven't found threads to be so great compared to multiple processes. Sure they can be usefull, but they're not that great.

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