[Caml-list] Async and lwt

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 08:13:58PM -0400, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> I'm not at all sure that the decoupling is possible or wise for Async.
> My intuition is that this is too complex of a problem with too much
> need for careful optimization to be able to have a simple, shared
> generic data structure for this.
> 
> The solution that seems most plausible to me is to settle on one
> implementation, and port the API of one library to run on top of the
> other. There was indeed an experiment in this direction that was done
> by Jeremie Dimino:
> 
> https://github.com/janestreet/lwt-async
> 
> That said, until we resolve the binary size issues with Core and
> therefore Async, I doubt that this solution would be appealing to the
> full community of lwt users.

What are the conceptual differences between Async and lwt?  Does either 
of them manage to take advantage of a shared-heap multicore system?

-- hendrik