[fpc-pascal] FPC for High Performance Computing (HPC) Components with Application API

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Oct 15 23:53:34 CEST 2010


In our previous episode, Andrew Brunner said:
> Do you have a link to the latest version of pthreads?
> 
> It was my understanding that libc took over the pthreads project.  I
> just took up this issue a few days ago so I recognize my info may be
> stale or even wrong.

pthreads means "posix threads". And you said yourself that posix is a
specification not an implementation.

Nearly all userland thread systems are called pthreads, kernel supported or
not. 

Modern m:n implementations are vastly different to the older attempts.



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