From: Andrzej K. Haczewski <ahaczewski@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:44:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MSVC: port pthread code to native Windows threads
Message-ID: <16cee31f0911032344m3263730l607c02eb4e9adef5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AF0E842.2010201@workspacewhiz.com>

>
> Pardon my ignorance, but is there a reason to not use Pthreads for Win32?
>  http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
>

Not using pthreads on Windows makes Git:
1. faster on that platform
2. not depend on Pthreads for Win32

IMHO that makes Git one step closer to become native on Windows, and
is a sensible step.

Andrew