You wrote (in your message from Fri 25)
 > 
 > Solaris does have the overhead of "true" multiprocessing.  I'm betting a
 > duel processor system runs better on solaris than it would on NetBSD.

To my surprise, one of my collegues discovered recently that, under
Solaris, on a single processor machine, his application is about 25%
faster if it's started in a thread. This both with Sun's SparcWorks
and with gcc 2.7.2.


					Matthieu