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m The "efficiently" is ambiguous. Does it go with the "run" or the "use"? I'm putting it with the "run".
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NPTL is a so-called 1×1 threads library, in that threads created by the user (via the <code>pthread_create()</code> library function) are in 1-1 correspondence with schedulable entities in the kernel (tasks, in the Linux case). This is the simplest possible threading implementation.
 
An alternative to NPTL's 1×1 model is the [[Thread_%28computer_science%29#M:N_.28Hybrid_threading28hybrid_threading.29|''m×n'' model]].
 
==See also==