From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA26808; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:28:23 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA26895 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:28:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.rinet.ru (relay.rinet.ru [195.54.192.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gAOISL119843 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:28:21 +0100 (MET) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by relay.rinet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id gAOISK628849 for caml-list@inria.fr; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:28:20 +0300 (MSK) X-Envelope-To: caml-list@inria.fr Received: from dialin3.stormoff (ROVER1) [192.168.0.131] by stormoff with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18G1U8-0001BS-00; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:28:00 +0300 X-Comment-To: Vitaly Lugovsky To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why systhreads? References: From: Dmitry Bely Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:27:40 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Vitaly Lugovsky's message of "Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:14:50 +0300 (MSK)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Military Intelligence (RC5 Windows), i586-pc-win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Vitaly Lugovsky writes: >> A simple, fundamental question: why is native-code threading done using >> system threads? Why isn't pure user-level scheduling used as with >> bytecode? > > How will you manage SMP scheduling then? AFAIK Ocaml program cannot utilise SMP even with the native threads (due to the single master lock). - Dmitry Bely ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners