Re: Threads vs Processes (was: NuSphere and PostgreSQL for - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Keith Bottner wrote:
> Typically variables that you want to be per-thread are stored in what
> Microsoft calls Thread Local Storage (TLS). Variables that you want shared
> you can just treat as globals and statics with the appropriate threading
> synchronization primitives. With Windows 2000 and later you have up to 1088
> TLS locations that you can use, of course these can be pointers to memory
> which can store whatever you want.

Goes GCC on Windows support TLS, or only Microsoft compilers?

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