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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Stephen Perry" <perry AT hks DOT com>,
   "Laurence F. Wood" <LaurenceWood AT SunyataSystems DOT Com>,
   "Cygwin AT Cygwin. Com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin for windows to linux migration
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:40:41 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Perry" <perry AT hks DOT com>


> Other than templates, if you change all win32 calls to POSIX calls you
> should be good to go.  Including thread calls.  Does cygwin support
pthreads
> on windows?  That would be very cool, for porting purposes.

Yes, nearly complete implementation (only one key feature - cancellation
points - missing)... Oh signals per thread needs a little work.

Apparently the code is pretty fast :}. (Another project, an IBM
mainframe emulator bench tested cygwin threads vs Native threads vs
libpthread-win32 (another pthreads-on-win32 library, but unable to be as
complete as cygwin (can't assume a unix environment)), and native
threads where (of course) fastest, but we came out even with
libpthread-win32, and that was before some major speed enhancements.

Rob


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