On Friday 06 September 2002 05:39 pm, Ilyas Keser wrote: > What I also not understand is that one can also compile Mysql with > MIT-Pthreads. What is a MIT-Pthread? Where can I read more about this? > > Thanks > > ilyas
'PThreads' is short for POSIX Threads, which is the Posix API specification for multi-threading. Threading can be implemented in a wide variety of ways, and an implementation of the PThreads API was done at MIT, thus 'MIT PThreads'. Since any PThreads implementation in theory implements the same API they SHOULD be interchangeable. In theory... In practice no such thing is even close to true because of various factors, but MySQL does claim to link and run against several threads libraries. My guess would be that you are almost always better off using whatever the default threading is for your platform. It would require a deep knowledge of the implementation to have any idea what linking against some other thread library will do. At the very best you might get better performance or avoid some bugs, at worst you get a broken or flakey and/or inefficient binary. Leave it to experts! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble > unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
