Subj : Re: User-level thread library/package for Linux
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Friesen
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 10:05 am

kimo wrote:
> Hey folks, where does this report from HP relate to?
> 
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.html
> 
> It says (i believe) that "Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library"
> that's the title anyhow...

Why not read it and find out?

Basically they're arguing that the compiler needs to be written to be 
aware of concurrency so that you don't get subtle race conditions and 
can still extract full performance.

Chris

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