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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:27:43 +0400
From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Multicore runtime

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