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Petri Helenius wrote:
> What are the observed benefits on running a threaded application with 1:1
> threads instead of the M:N libkse model?

You get to context switch in PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM because you
give away your quantum to the system, instead of another thread
in your same process.

Wait, that's not a benefit...

-- Terry