Subject: Re: UltraSPARC-T1 docs
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/26/2006 22:30:13
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:01:14AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> Having said that, one wonders why the hell anyone would want to run a
> single threaded, big lock style kernel on hardware that is designed to
> run highly multi-threaded software.  Performance will suck, Sun will
> tell you this.

got to start somewhere.  there's nothing like eight full cores to help
shake out race conditions when the time does come to break down the big
monolithic kernel...

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