Intel Chief Evangelist Comments on Linux Scheduler

ByeByeWintel writes "James Reinders is Intel's Chief Evangelist for Intel's Software Development Products. In a recent interview on Devx.com he stated: 'If I could get ONE wish fulfilled would be for OS scheduling to focus on processes, and not threads, for scheduling. And demand that processes manage their scheduling of threads ... There is a lot of opportunity for operating systems to offer these types of control in the 'running of applications' interfaces. I'd like an OS to let me specify the 'world' my application runs in (which processors, how many, etc.) These interfaces are available in Windows at run time (the task manager will let you adjust where a running task can go).'"

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Re:I don't understand

[Rogerborg]

Christ, yes. Propagandist is more accurate.

Back in the Day, Microsoft's European DirectX 'evangelist' paid a visit to our game dev studio to try to sell us on the benefits of Direct X Retarded Mode. We had our engine running with D3DRM and Glide (I said, back in the Day), and the Glide framerate was easily twice that of D3DRM. He told us that that was impossible. We said "Look at the screen.". He literally refused to look. He just insisted that we were wrong, that there was no reason that D3DRM should be slower than Glide, and that we must therefore be doing something wrong. Did I mention that he wouldn't look at the screen?

Needless to say, we didn't even offer him lunch.