Re: GNU-Pth and GLIB

[Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang iNsu com>]

> Jonas Bulow <jonas bulow servicefactory se> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Would it be of interest to have native GNU-Pth as a thread
> > implementation besides POSIX and Solaris? 
> > 
> > Has anyone done any work on this?
> 
> A patch would probably be accepted - though I think GNU-Pth is
> basically uninteresting. User space threads are just not ever going to
> be as good as native threads, and basically all interesting platforms
> now have native threads.

If I recall, linuxthreads aren't kernel threads either. It's is based
on clone()'ing and stuff like that. Not a thread expert though.


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