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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!
Last edited by ocicat; 19th February 2012 at 05:13 AM. Reason: fix URL error |
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what does this mean for an average user or sysadmin?
Last edited by bsdplus; 19th February 2012 at 07:37 AM. |
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means all the hard work paid off
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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 |
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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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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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