Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:43:36 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent face to face threads talks. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912121637510.26823-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199912130013.QAA04310@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > I think that others are going to cover the technical aspects of this > discussion, so I'm going to limit myself to one slightly disappointing > observation. > > During the proceedings, it became very clear that only a small number of > attendees have taken the time to perform any substantial research on the > topic. None of the ideas being discussed are new; they've all been > looked at many, many years ago. If we're going to maintain our > reputation for careful implementation of time-tested ideas and > techniques, we need to avail ourselves of the work of others, and that > means hunting down and reading the large volume of research output on the > topic. The discussion was not so much a description of all that has been done in the past but a discussion of some of the ideas that we have already narrowed down to given that we want to implement it in something vaguely related to the current system. I think a lot of the discussion was from the perspective of: "What can we implement in arealistic time scale". > > I know that Terry has a reading list, and I'm sure that others do as > well. I think it'd be to our great advantage to have these lists > distributed as well as a central repository of papers and references > created so that we pull ourselves past the discussing of half-baked ideas > and avoid several years worth of wheel reinvention. We've already published a list of threading related papers on this mailing list but I am sure we can do it again. Julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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