From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6705CBB91 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:31:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j09JV2iR009842 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:31:02 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA26019 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:31:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailfe09.swip.net (mailfe09.swipnet.se [212.247.155.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j09JV1pK009839 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:31:01 +0100 X-T2-Posting-ID: 2IIuXFmkcTpj3lKEFKW25A== Received: from [83.176.161.239] (HELO poincare) by mailfe09.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.7) with ESMTP id 61292181; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:31:00 +0100 Received: from poincare ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=trch) by poincare with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CnilO-0004ke-00; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:30:10 +0100 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:30:10 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <20050109.203010.110660321.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> To: "O'Caml Mailing List" Subject: Thread safe Str From: Christophe TROESTLER Organization: Universite de Mons-Hainaut (http://math.umh.ac.be/an/) X-Spook: data haven Aldergrove UFO condor embassy AIMSX Agfa David John Oates SEAL Team 6 global X-Blessing: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux (http://www.linux.org/) X-Mailer-URL: http://www.mew.org/ X-Mailer: Mew version 4.1.53 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41E18676.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41E18675.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; christophe:01 troestler:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 umh:01 lgpl:01 pcre:01 regexp:01 cheers:01 thread:02 thread:02 seems:03 module:03 module:03 100%:94 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: Hi, The new Str module not only made it LGPL but also very fast (100% more than Pcre in some cases). However it is still not thread safe -- and it is not possible given its interface. However, from a quick look, it seems to me that what is under the hood is almost thread safe. So why not to write a new module (say Regexp) which would be thread safe and on top of which Str would be build? This would not be too much work, would it? Cheers, ChriS