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Re: dh_shlibdeps: bogus? warnings when linking against pthread



On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 05:59:55PM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Glibc has stubs for many of the pthread functions, that do nothing when
> libpthread isn't loaded. This way, code has not runtime performance for
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> using mutexes and locking when there is no thread used.
> 
> If your library only uses the stuff that the libc has stubs for, then
> you don't want to force linking against libpthread, as it will bring a
> performance penalty for mono-threaded programs.


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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
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