From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 3 12:16:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: threads@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C7E16A40F; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:16:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: from what-creek.com (what-creek.com [66.111.37.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A01E143E1A; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:16:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jb@what-creek.com) Received: by what-creek.com (Postfix, from userid 102) id 4F77578C1D; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:16:47 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:16:47 +0000 From: John Birrell To: Daniel Eischen Message-ID: <20060703121647.GA24781@what-creek.com> References: <20060703101554.Q26325@fledge.watson.org> <20060703120113.GA24614@what-creek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: threads@freebsd.org, Robert Watson Subject: Re: Strawman proposal: making libthr default thread implementation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:16:53 -0000 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:08:56AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > It's not so much getting libpthread working on the other architectures > (sparc64 is the only Tier 1 (is Sparc64 Tier 1 yet?) that libpthread > doesn't work on). It's being able to support the POSIX standard. > That was the goal years ago when we started the process of designing > a new thread library. I maintain that we have to be able to support > the standard, if we can't then it's a not a good design. Right now I would settle for performance matching Linux before trecking to the end of the earth to comply with POSIX. Most Linux developers probably don't even know what POSIX is. -- John Birrell