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Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Group Proposal)

From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
July 24, 2000 17:18
Subject:
Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Group Proposal)
Message ID:
E13GsGg-00073B-00@roam1
Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk> writes:
>
>I encourage you - nay, I encourage *EVERYONE* - to look at glib.

Where is it (docs will do for now)? (what is it?)

>
>It's got threading. It's got safe signals. It's got hashes. It's got
>arrays. It's got a main event loop with scheduling. It's got safe memory
>allocation. It's got hook functions. It's got IO disciplines. It's got
>platform independent type support. It's got automatic cache support. It's
>got dynamic module loading.

What ain't it got ? 

>
>How many of these wheels are we prepared to reinvent?

None - if the wheels fit on the vehicle we end up building.

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons




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