Re: Fast thread-local storage for OpenGL drivers

[David Laight]

> I suspect most of the old versions of Linux you're worried
> about will vanish from user's desktops fairly quickly
> as soon as Linux distributions ship versions that
> include the current suite of improvements.  (Not that
> people will kill for the new glibc, but there are
> a whole lot of improvements in font handling and
> desktop apps coming out shortly.)

Remember that wine runs on other OS (eg NetBSD) which isn't going
to start using glibc ever....

David