by Mark Hermeling, Wind River
“This is an argument that will never end, much like C vs C++, VI vs Emacs and Windows vs Mac OS vs Linux. There is no right answer to any of these questions, well, nothing better than ‘it depends’. (though for me the OS war has been won by Apple hands down).
With regards to Asymmetric Multi Processing versus Symmetric Multi Processing on a multicore processor, one of the arguments is convenience vs performance. In convenience SMP clearly wins, running multiple processes on an SMP OS puts the scheduling responsibility at the OS level, where in an AMP configuration the user has to make the first level decision as to which instance of the OS the processes and threads should go.”
