[Am-info] O/S 2 support - slightly off topic (my apologies)

[Eric M. Hopper]

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On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 11:08, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
> If you are basing that solely on windoze experience, you are viewing it
> under the worse possible light.  OS/2 users love our well threaded
> operating system and apps.  Its one of the (many) things that OS/2 users
> hate about windoze - how bad it does threading and how few windoze apps
> are multi-threaded.  Run SMP on windoze NT and you barely get any
> improvement unless you go to 4 CPUs as the operating system hogs the firs=
t
> CPU and the multiprocessor logic has a large overhead, but on OS/2 all
> apps benefit on a 2 CPU system, but multi-threaded apps benefit the most.=
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> The system is noticeably snappier and more responsive.  IBM sucks as a
> corporate entity, but they can certainly program circles around m$ft.

I'm basing this on my negative experience as a programmer with both my
own programs, and others.  It is perhaps true that a programming god
wrote all the OS/2 apps and they are mysteriously devoid of the
conflicts that plague almost every other program I've seen that uses
multithreading.  But, I somehow doubt it.  It must either be because
they don't use it as much as you'd think, or use it very sparingly.

You can get plenty of increased performance and snappier response (lower
latency) from multiple CPUs without having to have multithreaded
programs.

Have fun (if at all possible),
--=20
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be properly armed.  -- Alexander Hamilton
-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.org=20
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