Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:Intuition wrote:
Quote:Jim wrote:
Quote:Intuition wrote:
Quote:Kronos wrote:
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"they assume SMP means everything running on all cores as soon as AROS starts.
The S in SMP stands for "symetric" meaning all cores are treated equally (and therefore all tasks can be scheduled on every core at any given time).
If it ain't doing that for apps compiled against the Amiga-API, it ain't SMP.
Still a step in the right direction, and IMO the best possible way to may use of multicore/CPU systems within a reasonable timeframe.
If i understand what he is trying to achieve then it's SMP for stuff using a new API and single core for legacy code.
Which Kronos has accurately pointed out is an kind of ASMP/SMP hybrid.
And, as I mentioned to Andreas, is something we have been discussing for awhile now ourselves.
So...AROS implements it first, and THEY get to take credit?
Sheesh!
A bit like the US getting credit for the British Jet Engine, Television and Silicon Chip. ;)
Well, lets be fair, the British got really dangerous nuclear power plant technology from the US.
And the jet engine got its real start in Germany, not Britain.
We all strip mined German technology after WWII (an old tradition, that was well underway after WWI, AND may have helped lead the way to the second war).
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
