[M3devel] Release notes comments

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Thu Jul 16 21:47:13 CEST 2009


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:30:14PM -0500, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
> A couple of comments on the release notes for 5.8.2: 
> 
>     <li>System pthread threading is now the default on all
>      platforms. The original (fast) M3 user level thread code is
>      still there and can be used if necessary (on most platforms). On
>      many systems, this allows M3 applications to scale over all
>      available hardware processors.</li>
> 
> This sounds like it is the original user level threads that allow 
> scaling over multiple processors, which I believe is backwards.  
> I suggest swapping the second and third sentences be for clarity. 

Actiually. the second sentence won't really work if it's moved to the 
start, since it seems to launch from the first one.  Some rewording may 
be necessary as well as swapping.

-- hendrik



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