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Stepan Roh <stepan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The most common POSIX Threads implementation for Linux (LinuxThreads
> included in glibc2) is just wrapper for clone syscall. Why do you think
> it's slow?
just a comparision i saw a the linux-kernel mailinglist a while ago. linus
said people were better off using the native linux system calls for speed
and not the posix system calls and refused to do anything to speed it up.
btw. i don't have any experience with threaded programming but aren't
clone() used to fork whole processes? that's not threaded programming...
-henrik