Grant wrote: >Has anyone switched to NPTL and noticed a speed difference? If so, >what seems faster? Has anyone run across any packages that don't work >well with NPTL? What about the practical difference between + and - >nptlonly? > >
I can't say I see a speed difference, but then again, I haven't really tried to benchmark it either. No noticeable problems in the applications I run (KDE, VMWare, Thunderbird & Firefox, OOo1.9.XX) 'nptl' enables support for NPTL, but the old linuxthreads library is still available. You essentially end up building 2 glibc's, one with NPTL and the other with linuxthreads. 'nptlonly' does away with the linuxthreads build, so every application that uses threads must use NPTL. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
