Anthony Williams wrote:
Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
Johan Nilsson wrote:
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Wow, this caught my eye when lurking around. Are we promoting Windows-bashing for its own sake here ;-)
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/07/29/020729plmsu.xml (REVIEWS: A nod toward Unix... PROS: + Bypasses Win32 API for performance + Superior performance to Win32 API + Price is unbeatable)
All a bit vague.
It might well give better performance to code UNIX APIs directly in terms of the Windows native API rather than the Win32 API. It makes sense to me --- the fewer abstraction layers between user code and the underlying OS, the better. That's actually precisely my argument above.
Note also that V3.0 is being reviewed, which doesn't include pthreads.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/pthreads0.mspx
Demonstrating that it is possible to code pthreads in terms of the native Windows API, especially if you're writing a whole UNIX-interop layer, including a full POSIX C library.
[... nodding my head in violent agreement ...] / Johan