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NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system
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facilities.
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These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file
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and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory
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management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.
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A good portion of the library's purpose, and perhaps the primary purpose
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in the Gromit environment, is to provide the underpinnings of the Java
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VM, more or less mapping the sys layer that Sun defines for the porting
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of the Java VM to various platforms. NSPR does go beyond that
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requirement in some areas and since it is also the platform independent
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layer for most of the servers produced by Netscape
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