Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Question is, is it really that much overhead? I can't see many
> applications having references to errno become a bottleneck for
> performance. If they do, then they should probably be rewritten anyway

The slowdown is a price to be paid, otherwise we would need a
different set of almost all shared libraries for linking with
multi-threading programs.  I think we already had this situation, and
it wasn't nice at all.

With proper TLS, the function call we go away some day (at least on
Linux/x86).

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