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

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Andrew Brunner wrote:

> Ok. You mentioned NPTL.  What can you tell me about that?  Is that the
> project that makes pthreads?
> 
> I'm looking to get the latest and greatest source of posix threads so
> I draw upon that code and perhaps even come up with a native version
> for FPC.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I wonder if I could possibly make a suggestion here. NPTL is fairly well 
established in the Linux kernel- it's been a bit of a long haul, with 
some architectures getting it much later than others. However a lot of 
unix programmers are still very unfamiliar with the concept of threads, 
and "diluting the brand" with a competing implementation isn't going to 
help matters.

If you want to do something which is implemented inside FPC then don't 
mess with threads. Instead get an efficient coroutine implementation 
working, and then build whatever else you want on top of that- but call 
it something like Preemptive Coroutines :-)

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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