From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:58:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] thread-utils: better wrapper to avoid #ifdef NO_PTHREADS
Message-ID: <xmqq1s8gqcd8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181023202842.GA17371@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I also think we may want to make a fundamental shift in our view of
> thread support. In the early days, it was "well, this is a thing that
> modern systems can take advantage of for certain commands". But these
> days I suspect it is more like "there are a handful of legacy systems
> that do not even support threads".
>
> I don't think we should break the build on those legacy systems, but
> it's probably OK to stop thinking of it as "non-threaded platforms are
> the default and must pay zero cost" and more as "threaded platforms are
> the default, and non-threaded ones are OK to pay a small cost as long as
> they still work".

Good suggestion.