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Re: swapcontext() slow
- From: Godmar Back <godmar at gmail dot com>
- To: Stas Sergeev <stsp at list dot ru>, "libc-help at sourceware dot org" <libc-help at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:24:22 -0500
- Subject: Re: swapcontext() slow
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- References: <56A0D8BA dot 6020605 at list dot ru> <20160121164016 dot GH14840 at vapier dot lan>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> these functions are deprecated/dead -- they no longer exist in the latest
> POSIX specification. the preference would be to stop using them. i think
> we might consider dropping them in a future glibc version.
Interesting - what's replacing them, if anything?
Will there be any support infrastructure for portable user-level threading?
Do you have any background on why it was discarded? Lack of use? Not
being able to achieve its design goals?
- Godmar