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joe damato claims the reason threads were historically slower than userspace threading is because of an accident of map_32bit in glibc > So I think I've identi
by platz 8y ago
joe damato claims the reason threads were historically slower than userspace threading is because of an accident of map_32bit in glibc
> So I think I've identified the culprit and I believe the culprit is XFree86.
> it took seven years after this change went in for someone to figure out all the different parts that were damaged and fix them later, right? So threads were broken for a really long time.
https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/joe-damato-all-programmers-must-learn-c-and-assembly https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/joe-damato-all-programm...
- asveikau 8y agoBut people were saying that long before the events of that story, which start in 2001. And people were saying it on platforms other than Linux.