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Bug#360340: ITP: libpcl1 -- the Portable Coroutine Library (PCL) implements the low level functionality for coroutines



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Damián Viano" <debian@damianv.com.ar>

* Package name    : libpcl1
  Version         : 1.6
  Upstream Author : Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
* URL             : http://www.xmailserver.org/libpcl.html
* License         : GPL
  Description     : the Portable Coroutine Library (PCL) implements the low level functionality for coroutines

Coroutines are a very simple cooperative multitasking environment where
the switch from one task to another is done explicitly by a function
call. Coroutines are a lot faster than processes or threads switch,
since there is no OS kernel involvement for the operation. Also
coroutines require much less OS resources than processes of threads.

For a more complete definition of the term coroutine see The Art of
Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1des-nv
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)



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