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Old 19th February 2012
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Originally Posted by bsdplus View Post
what does this mean for an average user or sysadmin?
Certain programs from the ports collection may run faster, in particular if you have multiple cpus and the program has multiple threads doing computation, or even if you have a single CPU and the program was designed to do I/O in parallel with computation in a way that depended on the presence of native kernel threads.

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobs...u-rthreads.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKpljl-kI3I
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