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Subject: Re: POSIX threads

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 11:54:38 07/05/05

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On July 05, 2005 at 05:02:54, Lance Perkins wrote:

>Not true.
>
>Testing a multi-threaded app on a single-cpu machine is bogus. Its very easy to
>write a multi-threaded app. Its a no brianer. But to be sure that it actually
>works on a multi-cpu machine, you have to test it on one.
>
>On a single-cpu machine, the threads never run in parallel. A shared resource
>will never be accessed simultaneously.

Wrong.  You are limiting the concept of a shared resource to a single memory
access.  A shared resource may be an entire table or even an executable object.
Without protection by, say, a POSIX mutex, a program on a single processor
machine running multiple threads may fail.

• Re: POSIX threads Lance Perkins 18:39:48 07/05/05
  • Re: POSIX threads Steven Edwards 00:52:40 07/06/05
    • Re: POSIX threads Lance Perkins 10:53:12 07/06/05
      • Re: POSIX threads Steven Edwards 18:33:40 07/06/05
• Re: POSIX threads Dann Corbit 13:29:32 07/05/05

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