> >
> >You can drop hints in a posix.4 compliant system using
> sched_yield() which
> >basically says "I can't go forward, run someone else, but I
> want to get
> running
> >again too straight afterwards". Netscape uses buzz locks that
> spin briefly
> >then yield. The code for that is in the Mozilla source.
>
are "buzz" locks then the same as "spin" locks?
and are you saying that Netscape is using threads?
Joe
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