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GLib2 Gets Ready for GNOME 3.16, Brings Support for HTTP Proxies in GIO

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Marius Nestor
Mar 20, 2015

According to the release notes of GLib2 2.44.0 Release Candidate (RC), ???private??? futuxes are now used in the library in order to improve the performance of the contented case of g_bit_lock() and GMutex. Additionally, the if_indextoname(), if_nametoindex(), and inet_pton() functions are now used when building GLib2 in newer versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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