From: Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] serialization of closures
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 19:20:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <950e3e57-ec7b-b85d-c3f5-7e11a5c336dd@starynkevitch.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210603171753.nci6b45fepzyupnm@oulala>
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On 03/06/2021 19:17, Christophe Raffalli wrote:
> Hello dear camlers,
>
> I just noticed that in 4.12+effect, in the road to multicore, we have now the
> nice exception:
>
> Failure("Serializing closures is broken in multicore")
>
> This is a bit a pity: if you want to use both multicore and multi-machine
> parallelism, then, marshalling closures was useful for communication between
> machines in some cases. Is it a final decision or serialization of closures will
> be lost forever in OCaml ?
My guess is that serialization of closures might work in bytecode, and
is broken in native, in relation to ASLR
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization>.
Of course, I could be very wrong.
Cheers
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Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>
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2021-06-03 17:17 Christophe Raffalli
2021-06-03 17:20 ` Basile Starynkevitch [this message]
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