On 30 Dec 2000, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> > Likely, netscape might run nicer if threading worked properly.
> 
> No. Netscape has its own internal thread system which, as far as I can
> tell, runs about as poorly on Linux as it does on NetBSD.

This isn't quite right.  Netscape's portable runtime provides its own
threading system if necessary, but can take advantage of a native 
pthreads implementation, and has hooks for using others, too.

The end result may look the same, but they get there through
different paths.