From: "Gregory Morrisett" <jgm@CS.Cornell.EDU>
To: "Xavier Leroy" <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>,
"Blair Zajac" <blair@orcaware.com>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Why systhreads?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:23:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FB4F95390166B14C90E4DD950D69D6E2042309@EXCHVS2.cs.cornell.edu> (raw)
>Factors of 10 are always nice :-) Just kidding. What I meant is the
>following: assume making the Caml runtime system thread-safe
>entails a 25% slowdown on program execution. (This can easily
>happen if e.g. we have to lock a mutex at each heap
>allocation.)
I would assume that allocation (in the nursery) is done
via a pointer bump, and that it would be easy enough to
have separate nurseries for threads. Then the only
synchronization that's needed is for GC. At least, that's
how we did it with SML/NJ.
-Greg
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-26 19:23 Gregory Morrisett [this message]
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2002-11-23 9:08 Lauri Alanko
2002-11-24 7:36 ` Sven Luther
2002-11-24 17:41 ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-24 18:12 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2002-11-24 21:10 ` Christopher Quinn
2002-11-24 17:14 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-11-24 17:18 ` Lauri Alanko
2002-11-24 18:27 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-11-24 23:14 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-11-27 14:33 ` Tim Freeman
2002-11-29 13:25 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-11-25 10:01 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-11-25 14:20 ` Markus Mottl
2002-11-25 19:01 ` Blair Zajac
2002-11-25 21:06 ` james woodyatt
2002-11-25 22:20 ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-26 6:49 ` Sven Luther
2002-11-27 13:12 ` Damien Doligez
2002-11-27 18:04 ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-27 21:04 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-11-26 9:02 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-11-26 9:29 ` Sven Luther
2002-11-26 9:34 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-11-26 9:39 ` Sven Luther
2002-11-26 18:42 ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-26 19:04 ` Dave Berry
2002-11-27 0:07 ` Lauri Alanko
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