Messages in this thread |  | | From | Marc-Christian Petersen <> | Subject | Re: NGPT 2.2.0 RELEASED: TOPS LINUXTHREADS AND NPTL IN SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:05:50 +0100 |
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On Friday 10 January 2003 20:58, Bill Abt wrote:
Hi Bill,
> In this release, the primary focus was performance. Significant > performance and scalability enhance- > ments have been made to this release making it the fastest and most > scalable POSIX compliant > threads package available on the Linux platform. hmm, can this be true?
From the website: http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/pthreads/
"Linus Torvalds: Look at Next Generation POSIX Threads (NGPT) for the future" "of threads, he advised. "pthreads are horrible, and Linux has a very" "different model, and there was no glue between the two." NGPT could be that" "glue."
_when_ did Linus say that? :)
> NGPT Release 2.2.0 is a point release of the "Next Generation" of Linux > pthreads support. > This release is fully suitable as a replacement for LinuxThreads by either a > single user or group or and entire distribution.
so, KDE works now but instead you made mozilla, xmms and galeon gone to death ;)
ciao, Marc
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