Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Fine-grained SMP support in Vulcan
Author Jim Starkey
Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Vulcan promises to have fine-grained SMP support. It is often mentioned
>that Firebird 1.5 Classic has SMP support, but I'm not sure if one can
>call that really "SMP support", rather that being able to use multiple
>processors due to it's nature of spawning one process per connection?
>
>I don't know what definition people use for SMP, but for Firebird 1.5
>Classic, shouldn't it be multi-processor support:"yes", but SMP support
>:"no"?
>
>Guys, how would you define SMP and its support in Firebird 1.5?
>
>
>
I would say that classic is completely SMP friendly.

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