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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: STM support in OCaml
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:53:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fylrh88l.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141878751.8450.37.camel@budgie.wigram>

> In that case the whole cache has to be not only
> flushed to RAM, it has to be reloaded into another
> cache. Pretty nasty .. on a MP machine.

Yes, of course, the data needs to copied between the CPUs.  But the cache
never needs to be flushed.


        Stefan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-09 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-07 16:18 Asfand Yar Qazi
2006-03-07 16:50 ` [Caml-list] " Sebastian Egner
2006-03-07 17:44   ` Michael Hicks
2006-03-08  0:37     ` Asfand Yar Qazi
2006-03-08  5:05       ` Erick Tryzelaar
2006-03-11 19:43     ` Deadlock free locking scheme (was: Re: [Caml-list] STM support in OCaml) David MENTRE
2006-03-07 17:15 ` [Caml-list] STM support in OCaml skaller
2006-03-07 19:05   ` Asfand Yar Qazi
2006-03-08  0:52     ` skaller
2006-03-08  7:08       ` Bardur Arantsson
2006-03-08 10:38       ` [Caml-list] " Asfand Yar Qazi
2006-03-08 19:36       ` William Lovas
2006-03-08 20:45         ` Brian Hurt
2006-03-08 21:14           ` Paul Snively
2006-03-08 22:06           ` skaller
2006-03-08 22:10             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2006-03-08 23:48               ` skaller
2006-03-09  7:45               ` Andrae Muys
2006-03-09  9:18                 ` David Brown
2006-03-08 22:11             ` Brian Hurt
2006-03-08 23:05               ` Lodewijk Vöge
2006-03-09  3:13                 ` Brian Hurt
2006-03-08 23:45               ` Robert Roessler
2006-03-09  0:23               ` skaller
2006-03-09  3:19                 ` Brian Hurt
2006-03-09  4:32                   ` skaller
2006-03-09 10:38                     ` John Chu
2006-03-09 16:53                     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-03-11 15:26             ` Florian Weimer

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