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Threads?

• Threads are processes that:
  • Have "light-weight" scheduling
  • Are "shared everything" - the complete address space
• POSIX Pthreads is ported, but not parallel
  http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html
• bb_threads uses Linux clone() call
  ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/