Re: Has pthreads become antiquated?

Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:

Could you give a real-world example where that low latency signal
processing would be beneficail?


Asynchronous i/o. Real time. The latter tends to depend heavily
on signals for some reason. Real time apps partly converted to
threads could be problematic especially on the newer multi-core
embedded processors.

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Joe Seigh

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