This message at the libc mailing list (I think that's what it is)
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-09/msg00350.htmlMain points:
"We are pleased to announce the first publically available source
release of a new POSIX thread library for Linux. As part of the
continuous effort to improve Linux's capabilities as a client, server,
and computing platform Red Hat sponsored the development of this
completely new implementation of a POSIX thread library, called Native
POSIX Thread Library, NPTL."
...
"Initial confirmations were test runs with huge numbers of threads.
Even on IA-32 with its limited address space and memory handling
running 100,000 concurrent threads was no problem at all, creating
and destroying the threads did not take more than two seconds. This
all was made possible by the kernel work performed as part of this
project."
Yum!!
