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From: Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why systhreads?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 08:36:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021124073653.GA960@iliana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021123090806.GA633@la.iki.fi>

On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:08:06AM +0200, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> A simple, fundamental question: why is native-code threading done using
> system threads? Why isn't pure user-level scheduling used as with
> bytecode?

I don't really know about windows (which is a pain to use ocaml on
anyway) but on unix, you can choose at compile time to use either
systhreads or ocamlthreads.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-24  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-23  9:08 Lauri Alanko
2002-11-24  7:36 ` Sven Luther [this message]
2002-11-24 17:41   ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-24 18:12     ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2002-11-24 21:10       ` Christopher Quinn
2002-11-24 17:14 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-11-24 17:18   ` Lauri Alanko
2002-11-24 18:27   ` Dmitry Bely
2002-11-24 23:14     ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-11-27 14:33       ` Tim Freeman
2002-11-29 13:25         ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-11-25 10:01 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-11-25 14:20   ` Markus Mottl
2002-11-25 19:01   ` Blair Zajac
2002-11-25 21:06     ` james woodyatt
2002-11-25 22:20       ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-26  6:49         ` Sven Luther
2002-11-27 13:12         ` Damien Doligez
2002-11-27 18:04           ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-27 21:04             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-11-27 21:45               ` [Caml-list] Calling ocaml from external threads Quetzalcoatl Bradley
2002-11-26  9:02     ` [Caml-list] Why systhreads? Xavier Leroy
2002-11-26  9:29       ` Sven Luther
2002-11-26  9:34         ` Xavier Leroy
2002-11-26  9:39           ` Sven Luther
2002-11-26 18:42       ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-26 19:04   ` Dave Berry
2002-11-27  0:07   ` Lauri Alanko
2002-11-26 19:23 Gregory Morrisett

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