[LLVMdev] Thread support: desirable or not?

[Evan Jones]

On May 19, 2005, at 19:10, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> 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.

Does that mean option 1 or option 2 is fine:

1. Always link the JIT against a platform's thread library so it is 
always thread-safe.
2. Build two JITs, one that is thread-safe, and another which is not. 
Users must manually select the correct JIT.

Evan Jones

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