Threads question

Threads question

[Raj Bandyopadhyay]

Hi all

I am using OCaml threads for an application that I am building.  
However, I don't require concurrency (which OCaml threads do not  
provide anyway). I'm using it only because it makes it far easier to  
express my algorithm.

I was wondering if there is a more lightweight thread library out  
there which works at the native code level and does not use system- 
level threads? I'd like to avoid the performance overhead of  
pthreads, if possible. The OCaml threads library does provide a vm- 
level thread, but it works only for bytecode :(

Thanks
Raj

Re: [Caml-list] Threads question

[Daniel Bünzli]

Le 10 oct. 07 à 16:43, Raj Bandyopadhyay a écrit :

> I was wondering if there is a more lightweight thread library out  
> there which works at the native code level and does not use system- 
> level threads?

I don't remember exactly how it is implemented but maybe Jérôme  
Vouillon's lwt [1] is what you are looking for. You can find it in  
the distribution of the Unison file synchronizer and in Ocsigen.

Best,

Daniel

[1] http://www.ocsigen.org/doc/lwt/Lwt.html