The Next Generation POSIX Threading Project team has posted a stable release (2.2.0) of the NGPT. It is available for A32 (x86), IA64, PowerPC and S/390. They claim a better performance results over the LinuxThreads and the recent NPTL from Ulrich Drepper. More info on:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/pthreads/ It would be interesting to see which possible improvements will be available in future for Java under Linux/390 when the Java VM, for Linux, scould be be based on the NTPL and NGPT multithreading implementations (they have a different models 1:1 vs. M:N). Regards, Franco Fiorese EDS
