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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
-Hurd servers / VFS libraries are multithreaded, roughly using one thread per
+Hurd servers / VFS libraries are multithreaded.
+
+
+# Implementation
+
+ * well-known threading libraries
+
+ * [[hurd/libthreads]]
+
+ * [[hurd/libpthread]]
+
+
+# Design
+
+Roughly using one thread per
incoming request. This is not the best approach: it doesn't really make sense
to scale the number of worker threads with the number of incoming requests, but
instead they should be scaled according to the backends' characteristics.
@@ -18,7 +32,9 @@ instead they should be scaled according to the backends' characteristics.
The [[hurd/Critique]] should have some more on this.
-Alternative approaches:
+# Alternative approaches:
+
+ * <http://www.concurrencykit.org/>
* Continuation-passing style