[webkit-dev] pthreads and other threading primitives

Geoffrey Garen ggaren at apple.com
Mon Sep 26 15:49:04 PDT 2011


> Do we want to require that platforms support pthreads, so that code that isn't performance critical could have just one implementation?

It might work to require either POSIX threads or Win32 threads in all build configurations, and refactor or remove other threading code.

It's a bit weird to require POSIX threads on Windows, since, as Jarred points out, the implementation isn't really maintained. 

Geoff
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