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Re: libjava threads vs no-threads?
- From: Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>
- To: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:53:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: libjava threads vs no-threads?
- Reply-to: gnustuff at thisiscool dot com
Hi Dave,
> Here's the patch from last December that introduced ParkHelper:
>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2006-q4/msg00246.html
>but I couldn't find any discussion of the no-threads case in the related
>conversation; I did, however, find a post from 2004 saying "Expect it to be
>bit-rotted".
I was the one who did the ParkHelper refactoring and can confirm that accounting
for the no-threads case wasn't a requirement for this patch being accepted.
The higher-ups can certainly comment more, but I was under the impression that
the no-threads code seems untouched and unloved in all the years I've been on
this list.
-- Mohan
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