From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:03:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: introduce NO_PTHREADS
Message-ID: <e2b179460811170203v41e54ecclc3d6526bcc0fe928@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811150915240.3468@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

2008/11/15 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
>
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> This introduces make variable NO_PTHREADS for platforms that lack the
>> support for pthreads library or people who do not want to use it for
>> whatever reason.  When defined, it makes the multi-threaded index
>> preloading into a no-op, and also disables threaded delta searching by
>> pack-objects.
>
> Ack. Makes sense.

I'd be minded to make this the default on AIX to keep the prerequisite
list as small as possible, then people can opt-in for the performance
benefits if required.

I'll wait a little while to see if anyone else reports the same for
other platforms and then submit a patch.

Mike