[GHC] #7602: Threaded RTS performing badly on recent OS X (10.8?)

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#7602: Threaded RTS performing badly on recent OS X (10.8?)
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    Reporter:  simonmar          |       Owner:                  
        Type:  bug               |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  _|_             
   Component:  Runtime System    |     Version:  7.6.1           
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                    |  
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Comment(by simonmar):

 Yeah, it looks like they've done some trickery so that instead of calling
 `pthread_getspecific` they make an indirect call to the contents of `foo`
 to get its per-thread location.  This won't be fast enough for us, I'm
 sure.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7602#comment:6>
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