bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken) (11/30/89)
I have been reading about the Dynix microtasking library in "Guide to Parallel Programming on Sequent Computer Systems", 2ed, Prentice-Hall 1989. The m_fork routine is intended to parallelize loops, but it is not clear to me whether the ``jobs'' spawned by it are lightweight or heavyweight. I suspect the latter, but I certainly hope not. If they are indeed heavyweight, are there any lightweight packages Sequent or others offer as commercial products? I know of some "PD" threads packages that have been ported to the Symmetry (which we have), but, of course, there is no guarantee that these will work with future releases of Dynix and that they will be fixed if they break. Thanks for any help! -- Dave Bakken Internet: bakken@cs.arizona.edu 721 Gould-Simpson Bldg UUCP: uunet!arizona!bakken Dept of Computer Science; U of Arizona Phone: +1 602 621 8372 (w) Tucson, AZ 85721 USA FAX: +1 602 621 4246