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<gnucode>btw braunr is a former Hurd developer. He ported the Hurd from cthreads to pthreads.

<gnucode>The Hurd used to use cthreads (non-portable but faster).

<gnucode>braunr ported the Hurd to pthreads so he could get vim to work...if I remember correctly.

<nikolar>sorry, that doesn't make much sense to me

<gnucode>pthreads I believe is a portable thread library.

<gnucode>The Hurd did not always have pthreads. braunr ported pthreads to work on the Hurd. I believe.

<nikolar>ah so didn't port hurd to pthreads but other way around

<nikolar>pthreads is posix threads btw

<gnucode>sounds right I guess. idk. I'm not a developer either. :)

<youpi>it's Neil who wrote libpthread

<youpi>it's not a "port of pthreads", but an implementation of pthread

<youpi>then braunr helped on migrating translators to using the pthread API rather than the cthread API indeed

<nikolar>yeah what youpi said

<nikolar>that makes sense :)

<gnucode>stands to reason. youpi is probably smarter than I am.

<gnucode> Is anyone running a 64-bit on 32-bit Hurd ? Is that silly to even do since the full 64-bit port is getting near-er ?

<hwpplayer1>I am about to get involved Hurd documentation

<hwpplayer1>writing and translating

<hwpplayer1>Any mentors or similar position here to help us ?

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