Re: More info on making Debian thread safe.
Rob Browning writes:
> david@elo.sw.ods.com (David Engel) writes:
> > This is already planned for when we switch to libc6.
>
> It probably wouldn't hurt to make it policy now so people can begin
> changing their scripts, or were we planning to make it a default flag
> for gcc or something so that it's transparent...
I should have been more specific. Compiling with thread support is
already planned for libc6 and the X librariess. We should probably
discuss this further before we make it mandatory for other libraries.
Does anyone know how much of a performance impact this has on
applications that aren't threaded?
David
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