Subj : Re: implementing thread library
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Gianni Mariani
Date : Fri Feb 11 2005 08:44 am

Jomu wrote:
>   Very nice model would be Modula-3 one too... Esp for learning. Lots
> of things in POSIX 4a are compromises and not generally and practically
> useable at all.
> 
>   I am surely biased, but only three things one really needs to
> understand and use threads are - thread, mutex and condvar.

Atomic increment and compare and exchange are also important.  Simple 
reference counted objects otherwise become pretty nasty resource hogs.

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