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A comment on Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines. Parent comment

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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