Le Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:28:25 +0100, "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury@shurup.com> a écrit :
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:49 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
I guess a long time ago, threading support in operating systems wasn't very widespread, but these days all our supported platforms have it. Is it still useful for production purposes to configure --without-threads? Do people use this option for something else than curiosity of mind?
I hope that the intent behind asking this question was more of being curious, rather then considering dropping --without-threads: unfortunately, multithreading was, still is and probably will remain troublesome on many supercomputing platforms.
I was actually asking this question in the hope that we could perhaps simplify our range of build options (and the corresponding C #define's), but you made a convincing point that we should keep the --without-threads option :-) Thank you Antoine.