From: Christophe Raffalli <raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>
To: Jonathan Bryant <jtbryant@valdosta.edu>
Cc: ocaml_beginners@yahoo.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Threads
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:46:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42AA96CB.2050706@univ-savoie.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1118426167.17936.32.camel@chunky.valdosta.edu>
Jonathan Bryant a écrit :
>I'm confused. In the documentation on the threads library it says that
>the threads implementation is shared time on only a single processor.
>Is that for VM and system threads, or are the POSIX threads able to take
>advantage of multiple processors? I would think they would be able to
>because (unless I'm mistaken) they're just wrappers around the C system
>calls...
>
>
>
No there is a global mutex for caml thread. The only thing you can do is
have one Caml thread and many C threads running in the same time.
This starts really to be an annoying limitation of the Caml runtime now
that you can have easily two dual core processors in one machine ...
(means four CPU)
>--Jonathan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-11 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-10 17:56 Threads Jonathan Bryant
2005-06-11 7:46 ` Christophe Raffalli [this message]
2005-06-11 14:02 ` [Caml-list] Threads james woodyatt
2005-06-11 21:03 ` Christophe Raffalli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-08 17:33 threads ygrek
2009-09-08 23:20 ` [Caml-list] threads Philippe Wang
2009-09-10 18:17 ` ygrek
2002-03-20 2:59 Francois Rouaix
2002-03-20 8:11 ` Remi VANICAT
2002-03-20 10:54 ` Sylvain LE GALL
2002-03-22 14:55 ` Xavier Leroy
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