On 9 Sep 1997, Dale Martin wrote:

> I was just curious - since libc6 is thread safe, and GUIs seem to be
> something that can be "naturally" multithreaded, is XFree86
> multithreaded under Linux? (or any other system, for that matter?)
> I'm about to get a second PPro for my box at home, and I already have
> SMP at work, so the prospect of a multithreaded X is quite interesting
> to me.

 X in unstable will soon be thread safe. But X itself isn't multithreaded.
 But don't worry. As the X server and each application run in its own
process, the Linux kernel will use all your CPUs for them.

-- 
Nicolás Lichtmaier.-


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