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> > that it's not clear to me or that I'm not getting the necessary feedback from
> > folks in the community that indicate that native threading is important
> > both of these technically and legally reasons from the luke warm responses
> > I get from folks.
> >
> 
> I can speak only on behalf of me and the companies I try to deploy
> FreeBSD at as, in some cases, Java application servers -- native
> threading is *Very* important... and further I appreciate all the work
> you guys are doing towards this.

Why?  The native threading that we're using now is no better/worse than
the internal green threads implementation.  Without kernel threads,
native threads have *EXACTLY* the same sorts of problems that exist with
green threads.


Nate

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