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NetBSD Now Has Native pthreads!

Posted by timothy on from the restless-threads-are-next dept.

jschauma writes, quoting the NetBSD changelog, was one of several people to point out that "Jason Thorpe has merged the nathanw_sa branch with -current. NetBSD now has a high performance, modern kernel thread implementation using Scheduler Activations in the main source tree. This work was performed by Nathan Williams with contributions by several other developers."

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  1. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sure all five people that this applies to are very excited!

  2. Re:O factor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your mom O factored about 5 times last night.

  3. Great by CableModemSniper · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    BSD is dying...but with 10x the efficiency!

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    Why not fork?