How to implement events on Unix?
Jeff Szuhay
jeff at szuhay.org
Fri Feb 9 21:56:24 UTC 2001
>I don't think that there's a lot of thread support on pre MacOS/X.
Hmm.. the Thread Manager (cooperative threading) goes back to
System 7.
The MultiProcessing Library (preemptive threading even on a single
CPU) was version 2.0 as of OS 8.6.
Its just that because of the event model, programmers haven't typically
think in terms of multi-threading, but its been there for quite a while.
But if you mean "standard" or common thread support/pthreads, then
I would have to concede your point.
But both MP Tasks and the Thread Manager are available on
OS X (the latter via Carbon, the former built on pthreads).
8-)
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