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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 22:37:58 -0700 (MST)
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> > Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library instead of using the NetBSD
> > effort toget JAVA running (they also heavily modified JAVA to *use*
> > a user space threads, BTW) seems like NIH.
> 
> Hardly!  Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library gives you a
> thread-safe library and JAVA.  Implementing NetBSD support to give you
> JAVA gives you only JAVA.  I don't think it takes a rocket scientist
> to figure out that "1 + 1 = 2" and "1 + 0 = 1"

Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library gives you a thread-safe library.

Taking NetBSD's work after it's done gives you a thread-safe library.

I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to see the duplication of
effort in doing the same thing twice.  ;-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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