From: Jesper Louis Andersen <jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com>
To: Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>
Cc: Stephen Dolan <stephen.dolan@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
Jiten Pathy <jpathy@fssrv.net>, Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Multicore runtime
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:32:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGrdgiW4U2FP3HKMN8aZHDUWE5CpDCmzroSRRoERGqjk5m7nOw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FE011996-4EF9-4C37-B43C-B4E2C226A678@recoil.org>
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:
> Indeed, our fiber model is compatible with filesystem I/O, but does not
> *mandate* that implementations support threads if a better-than-POSIX
> model is available on the target operating system. Async I/O works fine
> on Windows for instance, and does not require a thread-per-operation.
>
I fully agree with this point! The trick is to take the view from fibers
and down rather than from a (specific) kernel and up. And you can easily
make this run asynchronously on systems where it is really possible to do
so.
--
J.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-07 21:47 Jiten Pathy
2014-09-08 10:05 ` Stephen Dolan
2014-09-08 10:27 ` Peter Zotov
2014-09-08 10:45 ` Roberto Di Cosmo
2014-09-08 10:45 ` Leonardo Laguna Ruiz
2014-09-08 11:06 ` Adrien Nader
2014-09-08 14:49 ` Jesper Louis Andersen
2014-09-08 15:08 ` [Caml-list] format of .annot files Francois Berenger
2014-09-08 15:56 ` [Caml-list] Multicore runtime Anil Madhavapeddy
2014-09-08 17:32 ` Jesper Louis Andersen [this message]
2014-09-09 2:24 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-09-09 15:06 ` Stephen Dolan
2014-09-09 15:26 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-09-10 22:01 ` Stephen Dolan
2014-09-10 22:42 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-09-11 8:39 ` Stephen Dolan
2014-09-11 8:53 ` Malcolm Matalka
2014-09-11 13:42 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-09-12 10:42 ` Stephen Dolan
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2014-05-29 23:04 Jiten Pathy
2014-06-05 17:01 ` Stephen Dolan
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