Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:12:16 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org> Cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libkse -> libpthreads Message-ID: <20030422020939.S29990-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10304211916470.60324-100000@speicher.org>
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Narvi wrote: > > > At least for the moment it is not clear that one of teh libraries is a > > winner and will eliminate the other, so it would be evil to force people > > What's not clear about it? libkse is a superset of the functionality > of libthr. Seems pretty straightforward to me that the long-term > winner is libkse. > This assumes that libkse M:N model will provide supperior performance and scalability, and this is not clear. Or does merely the fact that itis M:N somehow make it more winning contender? > > to explicitly link against one or the other causing future compatibility > > problems. Both provide the same pthreads API so there is no reasonable > > case for demanding that one of them can't have its SONAME be > > libpthpread.so.1 > > Same API, but different capabilities. The one called pthread should be > the complete one. No compatability problems in that direction. > > Geoff >
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