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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: porting libjava to FreeBSD
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Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Well, for one,  this is a FreeBSD's limitation, not  advantage, IMO. And
> secondly,  libjava folks  obviously don't  know that...  BTW, any  plans
> on  kernel-threading?  So that  two  threads  do  run  on two  CPUs,  if
> available?..

It's being worked on, but don't count on anything soon.

> =I  would make  a freebsd_threads.c  and use  other models  as examples.
> =Remember that FreeBSD threads are user  threads, and some of the things
> =the Linux  thread support  does, we  don't have to.  I don't  know that
> =Linux threads is a good model to use because of this.
>
> Can one of the gurus, please, step out and make it then? Thank you...

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have the time.
I can answer questions, though.

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com


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