The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features.
The Apache Portable Run-time libraries have been designed to provide a common interface to low level routines across any platform. The original goal of APR was to combine all code in Apache to one common code base. This is not the correct approach however, so the goal of APR has changed. There are places where common code is not a good thing. For example, how to map requests to either threads or processes should be platform specific. APR's place is now to combine any code that can be safely combined without sacrificing performance.
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