From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A44BB81 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:55:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k29GtY84007324 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:55:34 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24382 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:55:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k29GtWI1000594 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:55:33 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FHOPI-00085V-Hh for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:54:33 +0100 Received: from toronto-hse-ppp4014731.sympatico.ca ([70.48.80.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:54:32 +0100 Received: from monnier by toronto-hse-ppp4014731.sympatico.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:54:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Stefan Monnier Subject: Re: STM support in OCaml Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:53:29 -0500 Message-ID: <87fylrh88l.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> References: <440DB255.1030701@asfandyar.cjb.net> <1141751708.20944.355.camel@budgie.wigram> <440DD982.8080800@asfandyar.cjb.net> <1141779125.20944.405.camel@budgie.wigram> <20060308193633.GA5460@coruscant.stwing.upenn.edu> <1141855594.23909.63.camel@budgie.wigram> <1141863807.23909.151.camel@budgie.wigram> <1141878751.8450.37.camel@budgie.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: toronto-hse-ppp4014731.sympatico.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bIbCwGq48yzHBQtSMPXlyHzgUWM= Sender: news X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 44105E06.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44105E04.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; umontreal:01 ocaml:01 reloaded:01 data:02 machine:08 copied:09 between:12 but:13 case:13 nasty:16 stefan:17 stefan:17 pretty:21 needs:21 needs:21 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 > 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