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From: Roman V Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C
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On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 17:32 +0200, Uriel wrote:
> So libthread must be a figment of 9fan's imagination...
>
> Of course, for Apple (or anyone else) to learn from Plan 9 would be
> impossible, so instead they had to add a new 'feature' to C.

Plan 9 has a lot to offer and a lot for others to learn from. Concurrency
framework that could scale up to 1K [virtual]cores in an SMP
configuration is not one of those features though.

Thanks,
Roman.