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From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org>
To: Stephen Dolan <stephen.dolan@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Jiten Pathy <jpathy@fssrv.net>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Multicore runtime
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:27:43 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6e4a941e45662223ee8c751d25c43e0@whitequark.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+mHimMNNOvBLnRvU-aiYe87j2KLzyxVc5OrGVvPEf1MDV9XAg@mail.gmail.com>

On 2014-09-08 14:05, Stephen Dolan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Jiten Pathy <jpathy@fssrv.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Nice work by stephen et al. on multicore runtime. Just had some 
>> questions:-

I have some questions as well.

Most importantly, why are there fibers at all? We already have Async/Lwt
fragmentation. Would fibers add a third option?

Would it not be enough to teach the GC how to interact with multiple
threads/domains?

-- 
Peter Zotov

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08 10:27 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 [this message]
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
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-05-29 23:04 Jiten Pathy
2014-06-05 17:01 ` Stephen Dolan

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