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Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, arch@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: [Patch] C1X threading support
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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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