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From: "Markus Mottl" <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
To: "Robert Roessler" <roessler@rftp.com>
Cc: Caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Severe loss of performance due to new signal handling
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:11:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8560b80603201911s60ed2882md3e2e2f8f3ca004f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441F57FD.90206@rftp.com>

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On 3/20/06, Robert Roessler <roessler@rftp.com> wrote:
>
> At the risk of being "irrelevant", I wanted to nail down exactly what
> assertion is being made here: are we talking about directly executing
> in assembly code the relevant x86[-64]/ppc/whatever instructions for
> "read-and-clear", or going through OS-dependent access routines like
> Windows' InterlockedExchange()?


We are talking of the assembly code.  See file byterun/signals_machdep.h,
which contains the corresponding macros.

Regards,
Markus

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Markus Mottl        http://www.ocaml.info        markus.mottl@gmail.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-21  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-17 18:39 Markus Mottl
2006-03-17 19:10 ` [Caml-list] " Christophe TROESTLER
2006-03-20  9:29 ` Xavier Leroy
2006-03-20 10:39   ` Oliver Bandel
2006-03-20 12:37     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2006-03-20 13:13       ` Oliver Bandel
2006-03-20 15:54       ` Xavier Leroy
2006-03-20 16:15   ` Markus Mottl
2006-03-20 16:24     ` Will Farr
2006-03-21  1:33   ` Robert Roessler
2006-03-21  3:11     ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2006-03-21  4:04       ` Brian Hurt
2006-03-21 12:54       ` Robert Roessler

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