--- Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > > >--- Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need > >>more cpu time than > >>vi? > >> > >> > > > >No. That is not a given. > > > > > > > >>Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of > >>computation or > >>because they have a lot of concurrent activity > that > >>might block right? > >> > >> > >> > >Threads are meant to take advantage of concurrency. > > >Maybe the freebsd implementation should implement > NPTL > >in entirety. > > > > > NPTL? > New Pthreads Library from Library? Yes. > isn't that GPL'd? > No -it is a standard. The linux implementation of nptl is gpl'ed. regards -kamal
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