[please don't cull Cc list on this ML] Andrzej K. Haczewski schrieb: >> Pardon my ignorance, but is there a reason to not use Pthreads for Win32? >> http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ >> > > Not using pthreads on Windows makes Git: > 1. faster on that platform I believe this only if you present hard numbers. My guess is that (for example) packing objects with two threads is still faster with a slow pthreads emulation than without threading at all. > 2. not depend on Pthreads for Win32 Why is this an advantage? > IMHO that makes Git one step closer to become native on Windows, and > is a sensible step. Emulating pthreads on Windows with all its facets is an extremely difficult task. If exact POSIX conformance is needed, I would choose an existing package over doing it myself at any time. Granted, we don't need the esoteric parts (cancelation points), which would simplify the emulation a lot. But, as I pointed out in my other mail, even a pthread_cond_wait() is not that trivial to implement with the Windows API. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html