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Article #3608Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:51
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:51
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Nevin ":-]" Liber (nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU) wrote: : adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) wrote: : > Which is why I believe CMT applications require extra care when written, : > i.e. they are created (written) differently than a PMT application (the : > contradiction to your earlier "no difference" statement). A threaded CMT : > application needs a little more care to ensure that some interaction : > between threads does not cause the app to hog the CPU. : And PMT threads have to do sychronization (semaphores, etc.) to make sure : that shared data remains consistent, while CMT threads do not. It's just : a tradeoff. I believe you are mistaken, CMT threads may need to do synchronization. Things like sprinkling CPU yields inside of time consuming blocks of code do not neccessarily guarantee any sort of coordination between threads. Tony -- ------------------ Tony Tribelli adtribelli@acm.org
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!netcom.com!adt From: adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Message-ID: <adtDppItC.I7q@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <4jj4mj$jnk@nntpb.cb.att.com> <danpop.828822597@rscernix> <3167FCAA.101@mts.se> <31680215.403E@mts.se> <4kdvbi$77c@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <adtDpLvI2.H3u@netcom.com> <dke-1004960729580001@adnline44.adnc.com> <adtDpntEF.Epw@netcom.com> <nevin-1104960029340001@192.12.69.5> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:51:12 GMT Sender: adt@netcom10.netcom.com