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From: "Frédéric Gava" <gava@univ-paris12.fr>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Where's my non-classical	shared	memory	concurrency technology?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:02:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483E9B68.5010606@univ-paris12.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF949D11-6284-4416-ADFE-80A3B4685BB8@inria.fr>


> That wasn't my point.  My point was that there is no return channel.
> If you want to know when your write is done, you have to use a lock
> or a memory barrier.  Both are very expensive.

Barriers of synchronisation are a little expensive (one of the main 
drawbacks with a too restricted way of communication) but have many
advantages as deadlock free and possibility to optimized the 
"communications" (copy of the data in the shared memory or juste the 
pointer).

FG


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-29 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-18  8:39 Berke Durak
2008-05-18 16:35 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-19 11:45   ` [Caml-list] " Martin Berger
2008-05-19 12:24     ` Berke Durak
2008-05-19 21:47       ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-19 22:24         ` Berke Durak
2008-05-19 22:37           ` Raoul Duke
2008-05-20  0:04             ` Pierre-Evariste Dagand
2008-05-20 21:27           ` David Teller
2008-05-21  7:52             ` Martin Berger
2008-05-21  8:06       ` Martin Berger
2008-05-19 14:09     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-05-19 16:30       ` Richard Jones
2008-05-19 18:26       ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-20  7:40       ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2008-05-21  8:18         ` Martin Berger
2008-05-21  8:06       ` Martin Berger
2008-05-21 13:50         ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-05-26 15:29         ` Damien Doligez
2008-05-26 16:08           ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-27  9:34           ` Martin Berger
2008-05-28 11:18             ` Damien Doligez
2008-05-28 12:16               ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-28 17:41               ` Martin Berger
2008-05-29 12:02               ` Frédéric Gava [this message]

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