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Date:      Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:06:38 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, arch@freebsd.org, threads@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Subject:   Re: [Patch] C1X threading support
Message-ID:  <86ty4y4rj5.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <85477.1324155737@critter.freebsd.dk> (Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:02:17 %2B0000")
References:  <85477.1324155737@critter.freebsd.dk>

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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> Ohhh, but I know:  Lets make a rival to the POSIX threads, we can do it
> much better and slightly incompatible, big market there I'm sure.

That's not the point.  The point is that C until now did not have a
concurrency model.  The threading API in itself is not important; I'm
sure the committee knows perfectly well that nobody is going to use it.
What's important is that the standard now defines how C behaves in a
concurrent environment.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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