Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Upstream URL: <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/state-threads/st-1.3.tar.gz> Please note, st-1.3[a-z] are OLDER than st-1.3. 1.3 is the latest stable and unstable release. Upstream Authors: Gene Shekhtman <genes@users.sourceforge.net> Mike Abbott <mabbott@users.sourceforge.net> Packager: Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley@terpstra.ca> presently in the NM queue. Copyright: The State Threads library is a derivative of the Netscape Portable Runtime library (NSPR) and therefore is distributed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 1.1 or the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. What it is: The State Threads library has an interface similar to POSIX threads. However, the threads are actually all run in-process. This type of threading allows for controlled schedualing points. It is highly useful for designing robust and extremely scalable internet applications since there is no resource contention and locking is generally unnecessary. It can be combined with traditional threading or multiple process parallelism to take advantage of multiple processors. See: <http://state-threads.sourceforge.net/docs/st.html> for further information about how state threads improve performance. Note: This package will be sponsored by 'Ryan Murray' (neuro) <rmurray@debian.org> until such a time as I can dupload it myself. -- Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley@terpstra.ca>
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