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From: William Le Ferrand <William.Le-Ferrand@polytechnique.edu>
To: "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Storing ocaml values outside ocaml's heap
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:19:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGS5m-=jWf=Y=17qc3mCD4=qAT-U5bqqDoP4g4ABkiRx=6SJ8w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE05363.8080102@glondu.net>

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hi Stephane

Yes, but it's not exactly what we're looking for : we plan to access the
data at a (very) high rate, so swapping/unswapping would probably kill the
performance ..


On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> wrote:

> Le 08/12/2011 05:35, William Le Ferrand a écrit :
> > We are building a cache in ocaml and we're wondering if it would make
> > sense to store ocaml values outside the reach of the gc. (gc on a 20GB
> > cache hangs the process for a second or so).
>
> Have you heard of the ancient [1] library?
>
> [1] http://git.annexia.org/?p=ocaml-ancient.git;a=summary
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Stéphane
>
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-08  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08  4:35 William Le Ferrand
2011-12-08  6:04 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-08  8:19   ` William Le Ferrand [this message]
2011-12-08  9:04     ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2011-12-08  9:07       ` William Le Ferrand
2011-12-08 11:03       ` oliver
2011-12-08 17:02         ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-08  9:40   ` Gaius Hammond
2011-12-08  8:49 ` Anders Fugmann
2011-12-08  8:56   ` William Le Ferrand
2011-12-08  9:29     ` Anders Fugmann
2011-12-08  9:12 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-08 10:33 ` Goswin von Brederlow

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