Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1

Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:35:33 -0400


Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:

>>This is interesting--I hadn't considered this as most of my work for the
>>past while has been on embedded systems with everything pinned in ram.
>>
>
> On an ftp server (or movie server, or ...) you CAN'T pin everything
> in RAM.

Yes, but you can use aio to issue the request for data and then go do
other stuff even with a single thread. David's case was faulting in
little-used application code.

Or arm I missing something?

Chris

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