17.3 Posix Threads

This section describes two Posix-Like multi-threading Bigloo libraries. The two libraries, pthread, and srfi-18 are all the same but the mutex-state function that returns different results. Because of these differences that might seem thin at first glance, the pthread library is significantly faster than the srfi-18 library. For that reason, it is recommended to use the pthread library instead of the srfi-18 library that is mostly supported for backward compatibility.

As much as possible, the names exported by this library are compatible with the Fair Threads library (see Section Threads).

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