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I had a friend exploring expanding the Solaris kernel to provide M:N scheduling to applications, back in the late 90s. I guess kind of a predecessor to Grand Ce
by Yoric 1y ago
I had a friend exploring expanding the Solaris kernel to provide M:N scheduling to applications, back in the late 90s. I guess kind of a predecessor to Grand Central Dispatch on macOS?
- felixgallo 1y agoSolaris had a variety of M:N options in the early-to-mid 90s, including libthread and pthreads, all of which were precursors to GCD as you say.
- Yoric 1y agoI remember that the idea was to provide kernel-level support for better non-blocking I/O for M:N schedulers. I don't remember the details.