From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>,
caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Master-slave architecture behind an ocsigen server.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:54:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51542152.7010609@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOOOohR7UT1SjFHMS5w8vpfxg8JD__XA+K2FQC0yzBf6J3kgaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/28/2013 10:39 AM, Philippe Veber wrote:
> Thanks Alain for this detailed description. I did not get why you do not
> use marshalling for computation functions: this should be safe given the
> same code is run in the GUI process and in the calculation
> sub-processes, right?
I believe marshaling of functions did not always work nicely with
dynlinked code. More fundamentally, we cannot rely on the generic
marshaling of data, for the reason I mentioned (some data types require
special handling), and it's very difficult to know exactly what is
captured by a closure. In practice, the computation functions capture
some values such as global values (global memoization hashtables, etc),
and it would be wrong to marshal them.
Alain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-28 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-26 14:29 Philippe Veber
2013-03-26 19:02 ` Martin Jambon
2013-03-26 21:01 ` Martin Jambon
2013-03-27 1:11 ` Francois Berenger
2013-03-28 7:37 ` Philippe Veber
2013-03-28 8:47 ` Alain Frisch
2013-03-28 9:39 ` Philippe Veber
2013-03-28 10:54 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2013-03-28 11:02 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2013-03-28 11:23 ` Alain Frisch
2013-03-28 12:18 ` AW: " Gerd Stolpmann
2013-03-27 10:00 ` Sébastien Dailly
2013-03-28 8:34 ` Philippe Veber
2013-03-27 16:07 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-03-28 9:18 ` Philippe Veber
2013-03-28 12:29 ` AW: " Gerd Stolpmann
2013-03-27 22:42 ` Denis Berthod
2013-03-27 22:49 ` AW: " Gerd Stolpmann
[not found] ` <4A6314AA-0C59-4E35-9EA4-F465C0A5AF3A@gmail.com>
2013-03-28 9:23 ` Philippe Veber
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