Re: Questions about NGPT vs NPTL

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Thanks for your response!!!
It was very informative. 

Best regards, 

Andre 


Dan Kegel writes: 

> [email protected] wrote:
>> If NGPT is faster than NPTL why you decided to stop the development?
>> Just because NPTL is already incorporated in glibc?
> 
> NGPT may or may not be faster then NPTL; the differences are
> probably minor.  And since the maintainer of glibc is dead-set
> on NPTL, the chances of overriding him are slim. 
> 
>> It is possible that you can contribute to NPTL to achieve the
>> same (or better) performance than NGPT has today?
> 
> Same, sure.  Better, not so sure. 
> 
>> What is the best model, 1:1 or M:N?
> 
> That remains to be seen, and may depend on whether you're running
> a single processor or a multiCPU machine.
> However, note that Sun is dropping M:N in favor of 1:1, and
> FreeBSD wants to do M:N, but had to focus on 1:1 to get anything out the 
> door.
> If those two projects' experience is a guide, then
> M:N appears to be a lot of work for not much benefit.
> See also http://kegel.com/c10k.html#threaded 
> 
>> You are stopped or are you active at this time? Are you working on
>> threads today or the project was cancelled?
> 
> I'm not an NGPT team member, so take this with a grain of salt:
> I believe NGPT is in maintenance mode; bugfixes will be released,
> so existing projects using NGPT can keep using it for the
> time being without too much fear.  However, new projects
> should use NGPT. 
> 
> - Dan 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan Kegel
> http://www.kegel.com
> http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045 
>
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