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Date:      Sun, 26 Apr 1998 20:59:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: threads performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980426205810.424C-100000@mozart.canonware.com>
In-Reply-To: <199804262310.JAA14150@cimlogic.com.au>

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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, John Birrell wrote:
> To fix the performance problem that people are seeing, I'll fix
> the signal handling to use a single set of sigactions for the process
> (as POSIX says) and dispatch signals immediately without using a
> thread as the signal handler (this was a bad idea from the beginning,
> but it was coded before the standard was released).

Yay!  Thanks for working on this, John.

Jason

Jason Evans
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