Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:07:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jasone@canonware.com (Jason Evans) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threads performance Message-ID: <199804270707.AAA02669@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980426205810.424C-100000@mozart.canonware.com> from "Jason Evans" at Apr 26, 98 08:59:22 pm
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> On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, John Birrell wrote: > > To fix the performance problem that people are seeing, I'll fix > > the signal handling to use a single set of sigactions for the process > > (as POSIX says) and dispatch signals immediately without using a > > thread as the signal handler (this was a bad idea from the beginning, > > but it was coded before the standard was released). > > Yay! Thanks for working on this, John. Please use ACAP as one of your test programs. I think I can provide (or get Jeremy to provide) the patches to ACAP to make it work on FreeBSD. As far as I know, we have the only ACAP that runs under g++. The main problem will be running it interactively and seeing if ^C works. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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