"The only slight advantage Apple has is that these APIs are now
provided by the OS, while in other cases they had to be used via add-
on libraries. "
Only a slight advantage;-)
"But they have no real technical advantage."
No advantage running these lightweight threads out of userspace;-)
"So I would hardly write a whole blog about how Apple is blazing a
new trail when in fact all they are doing is catching up."
Catching up with whom? What other OS ships with integrated task
parallelism, open GPU co-processing subsystem, and 64-bit
userspace supporting 32 and 64-bit kernels?
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