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A further thought on threads....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Thu Dec 8 09:01:08 1994
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 08:59:49 -0500
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From: tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
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>From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
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>Subject: A further thought on threads....
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>Here's a further thought I had on threads --- it's been said that we do
>have developers who understand threads, since AFS uses threads. The
>people who understand AFS, though, are people like Richard and Miki,
>people who are are kernel programmers. This is not surprising since the
>issues that one runs into when dealing with multi-threaded applications
>are the same ones which kernel programmers have to worry about.
>
>What makes this interesting is that this is pushing in the opposite
>direction where Susan and the R-Ready team have been pushing for, which
>is trying to make more and more programs only require application
>programmers, instead of C programmers, since C programmers are
>presumably harder to come by and more expensive --- with kernel
>programmers requiring more skill and expertise yet:
>
>Low-level High-level
><=====================================================================>
>Kernel C Application
>Programmers Programmers Programmers
>
>Whether or not we believe that the vision of allowing all administrative
>programs to be written without the need of any C programmers can
>actually be achived, moving towards requiring more kernel programmers
>seems to be moving backwards in how we've been moving our development
>group. It's been a long time since we've hired people on the basis of
>their kernel development skills, after all.
>
> - Ted
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