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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 06:21:52 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: libthr and 1:1 threading.
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I have to ask:

Why is it so important to people that the libthr performance
gains be impossible to achieve without use of the 1:1 model,
rather than a modification of libc_r, or avoidance of existing
kernel latencies?

-- Terry