Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines

Re:Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-cor... by loeg on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:04AM (#35916512)

“Recent” as in the 80s or 90s, sure. Threads are older than unix was when threads were introduced.

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Re:Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-cor... by fnordpiglet on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:42AM (#35917788)

I’m not sure I understand. Typically I’ve thought of threads called “threads” being formalized with POSIX threads. Before that, while my memory is vague on this, it was just lumped into multiprocessing under various names.

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Re:Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-cor... by loeg on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:03PM (#35921572)

Even if you ignore threading models prior to pthreads, pthreads itself dates to 1995.

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Re:Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-cor... by fnordpiglet on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:22PM (#35921845)

And Unix 1973

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Re:Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-cor... by loeg on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:51PM (#35923544)

So: Unix was ~22 when Pthreads were introduced in 1995, and Pthreads are 28 years old now.

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