Native POSIX Thread Library: Difference between revisions

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'''Native POSIX Thread Library''', also known as NPTL, in the world of the [[Linux kernel]] is a feature that enables [[Linux]] to run programs written to use [[POSIX]]-style [[Thread (computer science)|threads]] very fast.

In tests, it succeeded in running 100,000 threads simultaneously on a [[IA-32]] which were started in two [[second]]s. In comparison, this test under a kernel without NPTL would have taken around 15 minutes.