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dboreham • today at 1:50 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Never, ever, ever, write your own userland threading library.

(rule broken by almost every language in common use, unfortunately)


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eddythompson80 • today at 3:12 AM

That’s an absurd statement. Optimizing every language around what a runc-like program would need is absurd.

creata • today at 2:40 AM

Where does this advice come from? Most web servers would use a lot more resources if they didn't use userland threading, wouldn't they?

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