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Re: GC and Linux/SPARC?
Jeff> But then we have to do the same for MIPS, ARM and everything
Jeff> else that can run Linux if we are to be portable to those
Jeff> architectures... yuck. It seems like a duplication of effort.
Jeff> LinuxThreads already has code for test-and-set on all those
Jeff> architectures. So does the Linux kernel.
Is the LinuxThreads code exposed to the outside world?
If so it seems like we could get the GC to use it directly.
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