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-TODO list
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-* using of a unified term for cores and CPUs, currently we didn't differentiate
-* fast implementation of memcmp is still missing
-* prioririty handling in the Pthread library is still missing
-* use gs register to accelerate the access to newlib's reentrant structure
-* revise TLB shoot down
-* revise of the mmnif driver