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

>>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?
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>>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?
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> I would say that classic is completely SMP friendly.

Would you mind giving me a short definition what you understand by SMP?


Thanks,
Thomas