[Zope] Solaris threading, redux

[Paul Browning]

--On 03 April 2002 14:44 +1000 Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> 
wrote:

> from http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24658.html
>
>     One of the important changes in Solaris 9 is a
>     change in the threading library. Solaris 8 had an
>     alternate threading library that Sun was allowing
>     customers to play around with, and this is now the
>     default threading library with Solaris 9.
>
> no idea what this will do for Zope...

To quote my co-author (Matt Hamilton):

> Basically what it
> means is that the alternative threading model will be the standard (rather
> than the alternative :)

I.e. we can expect under Solaris 9 the sort of performance
reported in http://www.zope.org/Members/glpb/solaris under
Solaris <= 8 ( _providing_ you use /usr/lib/lwp on a multi-
processor box).

Paul

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