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

[Henry Vermaak]

On 16 October 2010 14:37, Andrew Brunner <andrew.t.brunner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:
>> pthreads is the standard, not the implementation.  The current most
>> widely used implementation is called NPTL.  Your link points to
>> LinuxThreads (judging by the name, I didn't download):
>
> pthreads is not the standard.  pthreads.so is the implementation of
> POSIX thread specification to be precise :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads says:

"POSIX Threads, or Pthreads, is a POSIX standard for threads."

libpthread.so is the name of the library, not the name of the implementation.

> Ok. You mentioned NPTL.  What can you tell me about that?  Is that the
> project that makes pthreads?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library