libpthread vs libthread, simply mysql benchmark (fwd)

[Robert Watson]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, David Xu wrote:
> 
> > There are lots of differences, I don't think they are the same thing.
> > Although it was derived from libpthread, now it is a new library, I
> > rewrote most part of code. 
> 
> I'm thinking he best place to import it is as a replacement for libthr,
> since that's the closest architecturally (libthr was also 1:1,
> synchronization based on umtx, etc).  However, we should ping jeff and
> mtm to make sure they don't object.
> 
> Another reason not to drop it over libpthread is that it keeps
> libpthread around for direct comparison (performance, etc), and also
> means that the production thread library from 5.x is still in 6.x, so
> gives a better path for testing and merging of fixes. 

BTW, have you had a chance to do gdb debugging support for this as yet? 

Robert N M Watson