Hi, On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jim Michaels <jmich...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I may have made a mistake about seeing some pthreads in one compiler... > found out native threads are threads given by the OS. > so never mind.
Well, I don't know for sure (from experience, never used 'em), but presumably pthreads means the POSIX threads API, which of course Windows doesn't support natively. So any pthreads lib is most likely a wrapper around that to easily support porting GNU (and similar Linux) software to Windows. Believe it or not, a lot of languages used to support "green" threads, which meant light-weight and cooperative, not OS-native, so even things like DOS/DJGPP used to work with such green threads back in the day (Ruby 1.8.7 or old GNAT/DJGPP w/ FSU Pthreads e.g. EZ2LOAD or JavaPC 1.1 in 1997). But it's not very efficient and less safe, I guess??, so they all prefer native threads these days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
