swapcontext() slow

[Godmar Back]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> these functions are deprecated/dead -- they no longer exist in the latest
> POSIX specification.  the preference would be to stop using them.  i think
> we might consider dropping them in a future glibc version.

Interesting - what's replacing them, if anything?

Will there be any support infrastructure for portable user-level threading?

Do you have any background on why it was discarded? Lack of use? Not
being able to achieve its design goals?

 - Godmar