[M3devel] rpath woes

[Jay]

Posix threads from C? From Modula-3? 

 - Jay

On Jun 5, 2015, at 8:42 AM, <mika at async.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Jay K writes:
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>> The FreeBSD4 users were surprisingly vocal surprisingly recently.
>> So I put some work into it.
>> I agree it is an old system.
> 
> I think you mean "the FreeBSD4 user"... I was actually running FreeBSD 5,
> but the 4.x config worked well.  
> 
> I've since upgraded to 10.0-RELEASE.  And don't use it much anymore
> because posix threads (still) don't work right on FreeBSD.  I spent a 
> considerable effort to get them working right on Debian, which they
> now do, but didn't have the time to figure it out for a bunch of 
> other OSes as well.  It's really pretty nice to have them working
> correctly.  They aren't perfect (a bit too much locking over garbage
> collection issues) but they don't ever seem to crash.  On problems
> with lots of parallelism you do get some parallel speedup, even.
> 
>     Mika