Re: Request official mandate for -D_REENTRANT

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu>]

Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> Well, when I brought this up earlier David Engel mentioned some tests
> that he ran: 
> 
> > I have some good news.  I tried a very simple-minded test case by
> > building Tcl 7.6 with glibc 1.99 and using Tcl's test cases as a
> > benchmark.  Compiling with -D_REENTRANT but not linking with -lpthread
> > only resulted in a ~1% slowdown.  This amount of slowdown is
> > satisfactory to me.

Ah, this is what was nagging at me, though I had forgotten that it was
only really significant for things linked with -lpthread.

It's fine with me.

Mike.


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