Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries

In article <3239e26c.798075912_at_news.dtc.net>, John Matzen <wizard_at_mrinc.com> wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>Because, SCO UnixWare and Solaris (and NT, and OS/2, and even Windows
>95 (!flames,plez)) support multithreaded applications. Linux does
>not.
>

This smells like flame bait, but Linux has had standard pthreads support for a while now. Additionally, with 2.0, users now have access to native kernel level threads. While both are good, Linux-Threads (kernel support) scales on SMP machines. They are good enough that toolkits like ACE, DCE, and CORBA. Linux does support multi-threaded applications. Depending on who you talk to, many even seem to think that Linus' implementation of threads is far better than Sun's.

Just somthing to think about.

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	Greg Copeland
	gcope_at_CyberRamp.Net

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