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Date: Fri,  4 Jun 2004 11:53:57 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] stack reclamation on Unix using clone, rfork_thread, etc.
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> As far as I know, the new pthreads library on Linux uses a technique
> very similar to the one that Russ describes, with the additional
> optimization of re-using stacks if possible.  In fact, I'm not sure if
> they ever free stacks -- just keep them around in case a new thread
> needs one.

That's exactly what I'm doing.  What a crock.

Russ