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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: best approach for multithreading (?)
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On 12/3/24 12:48, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
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> Think about it. The POSIX standard includes ISO C by reference.
> So that means POSIX has to have two thread libraries.
> It's a waste of flash in embedded systems.

C <threads.h> can be implemented as a thin wrapper over POSIX threads.
The waste is relatively negligible. The differences, were intended to
allow <threads.h> to also be implemented on non-POSIX systems as
wrappers for whatever the native threading system was.