From: Gerd Stolpmann <gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de>
To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com>, OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: features of PCRE-OCaml
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:40:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00120816434509.00625@ice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001208160507.A22011@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Markus Mottl wrote:
>Gerd Stolpmann schrieb am Friday, den 08. December 2000:
>> However, the PCRE stubs can be improved in one point: The master lock could be
>> released while the engine executes the regexp. Several threads could then
>> use the engine at the same time which would improve the responsiveness of
>> multi-threaded programs, and the programs would run faster on SMP systems.
>
>Are there annotations which one could use to indicate reentrancy of
>external functions? This would make it fairly easy to get rid of this
>problem. This information could then also be used for program analysis.
There are two functions making it easy: enter_blocking_section and
leave_blocking_section. For example, the stub for the read syscall of the Unix
library:
value unix_read(value fd, value buf, value ofs, value len) /* ML */
{
long numbytes;
int ret;
char iobuf[UNIX_BUFFER_SIZE];
Begin_root (buf);
numbytes = Long_val(len);
if (numbytes > UNIX_BUFFER_SIZE) numbytes = UNIX_BUFFER_SIZE;
enter_blocking_section();
ret = read(Int_val(fd), iobuf, (int) numbytes);
leave_blocking_section();
if (ret == -1) uerror("read", Nothing);
bcopy(iobuf, &Byte(buf, Long_val(ofs)), ret);
End_roots();
return Val_int(ret);
}
Gerd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-11 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-06 0:51 Markus Mottl
2000-12-07 16:01 ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-07 16:32 ` Markus Mottl
2000-12-07 17:08 ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-08 0:03 ` Markus Mottl
2000-12-08 17:52 ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-08 9:19 ` Alain Frisch
2000-12-08 18:11 ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-08 19:48 ` Alain Frisch
2000-12-09 17:07 ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-14 17:35 ` unicode support Nickolay Semyonov
2000-12-07 20:17 ` features of PCRE-OCaml Miles Egan
2000-12-08 12:30 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2000-12-08 15:05 ` Markus Mottl
2000-12-08 15:40 ` Gerd Stolpmann [this message]
2000-12-09 3:03 ` Markus Mottl
2000-12-09 13:12 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2000-12-10 0:32 ` Markus Mottl
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