From: Lucas Dixon <ldixon@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The state of ML: multi-threaded, saved state and support platforms
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:01:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3170C7.7090507@inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d49a1zho.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Lucas Dixon:
>
>> 1. Which implementations have native system threads with shared memory?
>
> And are there any implementations which allow multiple worlds in a
> single process, *without* shared memory?
I was wondering if some systems implement message passing concurrency
without shared memory. Seems quite reasonable to me. I think older
thread libraries for PolyML has limits on the way memory was shared.
best,
lucas
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-11 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 14:04 Lucas Dixon
2009-06-11 15:49 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2009-06-11 21:44 ` Lucas Dixon
2009-06-11 22:10 ` Richard Jones
2009-06-11 22:53 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-06-12 0:28 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2009-06-12 8:24 ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-06-11 21:46 ` Jon Harrop
2009-06-11 16:55 ` Florian Weimer
2009-06-11 21:01 ` Lucas Dixon [this message]
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