Subj : Re: atomic_ptr on powerpc
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Sat Mar 05 2005 06:50 am

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:58:43 -0800, SenderX <xxx@xxx.com> wrote:

>
>> The RCU stuff worked with only
>> a recompile so OS-X Darwin has a pretty clean pthreads implementation.
>> While Linux preempts even when you don't want it to, Darwin has the
>> opposite problem.  It doesn't preempt even when you do a sched_yield().
>> I had to set SCHED_RR to get the threads to interleave.
>
> Interesting. I am looking forward to purchasing a Mac mini.
>
>

A *lot* of people are looking *forward* to getting a Mac mini.  It's
mostly on back order.



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Joe Seigh

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