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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: JDK
To: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu (steve farrell)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:52:50 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199606201341.IAA24775@meno.uchicago.edu> from "steve farrell" at Jun 20, 96 08:41:56 am
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> 
> i think i'll write to the guy.  his comments on that page are quite
> revealing... that freebsd needs some more work to better handle the
> threads.  anyone have more info on this? (i have no idea what the
> date is on that page, and things might have changed a lot.)
> 
One thing that is on my list (and perhaps the next thing that I am
going to do) is to support true sharing of address spaces between
processes.  That will allow better support of certain thread packages
as I have heard.

John