Subj : Re: trying to understand simultaneous wakeup of all threads on pthreads_cond_broadcast()
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : el_bandido
Date : Sat Feb 05 2005 10:17 pm

>     Why would you want randomness?

Fairness?

> You would normally want whichever thread 
> ran the most recently to run again. (Hottest in the cache.)

Generally yes, (although it also depends on the rest of the cache 
entries I suspect).

>     For some reason, people seem to think that POSIX implementations should 
> be tuned for the minimal possible performance.

It's not what I had in mind when asking this question and having some 
experience with POSIX style programming, I certainly can defy that myth.

Thanks and best regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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