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From: "Nathaniel Gray" <n8gray@gmail.com>
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Jacques Garrigue" <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>,
	caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Select on channels (again)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:06:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aee06c9e0608241206j1ff5a82ao2aecda304c4e0ebb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156397869.16998.122.camel@rosella.wigram>

On 8/23/06, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> IF you had some known semantics such as that
> messages were of bounded length and transmitted
> in bounded time .. select would be useful, since
> blocking operations would block only for bounded time,
> in which case they're not blocking at all.

That's exactly what I'm talking about.  There are plenty of cases
where such assumptions are justified, including IPC on a single
machine or communication on a small trusted network.  Select on
channels is no more or less useful than regular select, other than the
fact that it makes it possible to use OCaml functions that only
operate on channels.

Cheers,
-n8

-- 
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-24 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-15  0:46 Nathaniel Gray
2006-08-21 22:47 ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-08-22  0:42   ` [Caml-list] " Jonathan Roewen
2006-08-22  6:27     ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-08-22  6:41       ` Jonathan Roewen
2006-08-22  8:15         ` skaller
2006-08-22 21:15           ` Mike Lin
2006-08-23  5:12         ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-08-22  8:10       ` Olivier Andrieu
2006-08-23  5:27         ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-08-22  8:21       ` Jacques Garrigue
2006-08-23  5:16         ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-08-23  6:35           ` skaller
2006-08-23 19:31             ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-08-24  5:37               ` skaller
2006-08-24 19:06                 ` Nathaniel Gray [this message]
2006-08-25  1:55                   ` skaller
2006-08-25 22:19                     ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-08-23  8:29 Christoph Bauer
2006-08-23 17:35 ` Robert Roessler
2006-08-24  8:18 ` Robert Roessler

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