On Thu 22 Feb 2007 at 12:49:43 -0500, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> If by N:1 you mean userspace only threads, you could try out libpth and
> see how it behaves (although make sure to also enable its blocking
> syscall wrapper support option at build time for the compatibility POSIX
> threads layer).  GNU Pth is actually only a select(2) based system, so
> it will not scale with SMP but should work rather well for I/O...

Note that Pth never worked properly for some programs on Alpha, where it
somehow did work for the same programs on i386. When SA came along I
stopped thinking about it so I don't remember any more details though.

-Olaf.
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