It _will_ be worse.
The C standard will eventually support concurrency (they are working on
it), and it will almost inevitably be a horrible pile of stinking sh*t,
and we'll continue to use the gcc inline asms instead, but then the gcc
people will ignore our complaints when they break the compiler, and say
that we should use the stinking-pile-of-sh*t ones that are built in.
No, I haven't seen the drafts, and maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but I'm
pretty sure that this is an area where (a) the kernel needs more support
than most normal pthread-like models and (b) any design-by-committee thing
simply won't be very good, because they'll have to try to make everybody
happy.
Oh, well.
Linus
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