Subj : Re: Any overhead to pthread getspecific() (a.k.a. thread-local
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Tue May 10 2005 02:28 am


Adam Ierymenko wrote:
[...]
> The OS is Linux, 

pthread_*specific() is a second class citizen on Linux (overheard 
of versioning protocol, etc.). "New" __thread stuff (aka ELF TLS) 
is what they favor.

regards,
alexander.

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