Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries

In article <3239e26c.798075912@news.dtc.net>, John Matzen <wizard@mrinc.com> wrote: > >>John Stevens <jstevens@bamboo.verinet.com> wrote in article >><516t1c$9ru@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. -- Greg Copeland gcope@CyberRamp.Net -*- RedHat Linux w/2.0.20 Kernel -*-