On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:31:45PM +0400, Alec Voropay wrote: > > Well, this is an area of substantial interest to MIPS Technologies. > > We are working on our multi-threading extension to the MIPS > > architecture, and one of our longer-term aims is to achieve really > > good NPTL performance. > > Sorry for a bit offtopic..., as far as I remember, the Windows NT > MIPS edition has a working multithread implementation. Is this > implementation very copyrighted and is it possible to use something > ftom there for the NPTL implementation ? In addition to what Dom has already answered - there are very significant differences between the multithreading as implemented in the Windows OS family and the varioius threading implementations for Linux like classic libpthreads, Linuxthreads, NPTL, Mozilla and more. If we legally could look at MS's code I'd not expect to find much useful for us there ... Ralf
