[LLVMdev] Thread support: desirable or not?

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Thu May 19 16:10:25 PDT 2005


On Wed, 18 May 2005, Evan Jones wrote:
> On May 14, 2005, at 13:28, Reid Spencer wrote:
>>> This is definitely *not* something that should go in before 1.5 is
>>> released, but I would love to see it integrated shortly after.
>> Okay.
>
> Now that 1.5 has been released, would it be possible to have some discussion 
> about if linking the JIT with a thread library is the direction that should 
> be taken? I don't see any alternative except having separate "threaded" and 
> "unthreaded" JITs, and requiring the user to know when the different JITs 
> should be used.

I think that this is fine.

-Chris

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