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Date:      Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:40:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        tom@uniserve.com (Tom)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, smp@csn.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <199803030440.XAA00843@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302174740.6855E-100000@shell.uniserve.com> from Tom at "Mar 2, 98 05:49:40 pm"

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Tom said:
> 
>   How is it that Linux has moved so much faster in this area?  Or have
> they?
>
Not really.  When things like SMP are worked on in FreeBSD, things move
pretty quickly.  If anything, we are just a big more sporadic due to
less manpower.

> 
>   It seems to me that they even have kernel threading too, although it
> seems to me that their threads are a bit heavy (almost pseudo-processes).
> 
So will we in 3.0.  (I already have the infrastructure, and work is kind
of in progress for a good API interface.)

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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