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Old 19th February 2012
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Default OpenBSD switches from pthreads to rthreads by default

Commit message here. There have been a flurry of commits afterwards fixing issues as well! Its been a long-awaited switch; Ted unangst's personal project for many years if I remember correctly!

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what does this mean for an average user or sysadmin?

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means all the hard work paid off
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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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Thanks Thirdm !
OpenBSD's full of nice surprises , eventhough the code hacker seemed to underestimate his achievement .. or maybe it was an antiphrasis rather than a litotes .. he said : nothing important .. lol ..
well done ! and yes this truly is : GOOD STUBBORNNESS ..
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cool. glad to know that. thanks thirdm
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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
The video was interesting. Thanks for that!
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Old 20th February 2012
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Posted on ports@ summarizing the fallout of rthreads on any port relying on the function pthread_suspend_np():

http://marc.info/?t=132965146500005&r=1&w=2

Ports such as devel/jdk & lang/mono will currently not work.
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