Strawman proposal: making libthr default thread implementation?

[John Birrell]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:08:56AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> It's not so much getting libpthread working on the other architectures
> (sparc64 is the only Tier 1 (is Sparc64 Tier 1 yet?) that libpthread
> doesn't work on).  It's being able to support the POSIX standard.
> That was the goal years ago when we started the process of designing
> a new thread library.  I maintain that we have to be able to support
> the standard, if we can't then it's a not a good design.

Right now I would settle for performance matching Linux before trecking
to the end of the earth to comply with POSIX. Most Linux developers
probably don't even know what POSIX is.

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John Birrell