On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > What do you think. Will I get better performance if I turn on NPTL on a > > AMD 1800+ Athlon XP 512MB RAM. I use this machine for desktop purposes. > > KDE, XMMS, Firefox, Tvtime, Kdevelop, Wesnoth, K3B, some audio- video > > recording and so on. > > NPTL performs better than the legacy linuxthreads, so yes use NPTL. > > Most of the packages that you listed will take advantage of threads (qt > relies on threads and, since kde is built on top of qt, it will be used). > > Those apps that do not use threads will not see much (if any) advantage of > threads (unless the underlying libraries they depend upon take advantage of > them). > > So in general, yes you should have thread support on your system (especially > any processor PIII or newer), and should have NPTL at least. > >
Hi, Thanks a lot for the reply! I have one more question. What is the "end-user" difference between NPTL and NPTL-only. I know, that later won't compile linuxthreads, but what does it mean? Does all in-portage applications support NPTL, or some apps will fail to compile, or will be slower cause of the miss of linuxthreads, or what? TIA. Cheers, Tamas Sarga Sárga Tamás -- Make the world confused! Zavard össze a világot! Smile on monday morning! Mosolyogj hétfő reggel! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
