From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists/caml/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Interpreter vs hardware threads
Date: 1 Mar 2000 15:02:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38bd773a@tequila.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38BC93FC.65E3ED43@in.ot.com.au>
>>>>> "Max" == Max Skaller <maxs@in.ot.com.au> writes:
> Asume LOTS of threads (thousands).
(insert-file "many-threads-bad-design")
> [Hardware threads are not fast enough]
[ I assume you mean OS threads, since hardware-supported threads
are not very common. ]
I guess it depends on the OS and the pthreads implementation, but
it seems that they are usually pretty fast (i.e. fast enough that
people more or less stopped trying to make them faster).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-02 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-25 13:37 mixing Ocaml with another GC-ed language STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2000-02-29 10:24 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-01 3:48 ` Nice feature Max Skaller
2000-03-01 3:52 ` Interpreter vs hardware threads Max Skaller
2000-03-01 18:55 ` Michael Hicks
2000-03-01 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2000-03-02 18:18 ` William Chesters
2000-03-03 16:59 ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-06 17:35 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-06 23:11 ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-07 13:19 ` Julian Assange
2000-03-08 20:12 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-19 6:10 ` Julian Assange
2000-03-08 23:30 ` Max Skaller
2000-03-02 17:25 David Gurr
2000-03-03 9:10 Edwin Young
2000-03-06 13:42 ` William Chesters
2000-03-03 12:12 Juergen Pfitzenmaier
2000-03-07 8:30 Simon Peyton-Jones
2000-03-08 20:02 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-12 1:45 ` Julian Assange
2000-03-07 9:06 Simon Peyton-Jones
2000-03-10 18:01 Manuel Fahndrich
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=38bd773a@tequila.cs.yale.edu \
--to=monnier+lists/caml/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu \
--cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).