From: Benjamin Geer <ben@socialtools.net>
To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Cc: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Threading: Using and Building
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:44:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <407B9A6F.6080409@socialtools.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040413021536.GA969@complete.org>
John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:37:09PM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote:
>
>>The threading is all user-space threading. It doesn't take advantage of
>>multiple CPUs, doesn't use system threads, if one thread blocks they all
>>block, etc.
That's not true; see Xavier's explanation:
http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200211/msg00274.html
Specifically, 'while a thread is blocked on a network read, other
threads may proceed'.
> However, Python uses true
> threads, so it is fine to call blocking system calls in threads (it will
> not block the entire program).
This is also the case in Caml; see above.
Ben
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-12 15:19 John Goerzen
2004-04-12 17:12 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-04-13 0:37 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-13 2:15 ` John Goerzen
2004-04-13 4:54 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-13 7:44 ` Benjamin Geer [this message]
2004-04-13 19:47 ` David Brown
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