From: David Fox <dsfox@cogsci.ucsd.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml, where art thou?
Date: 30 Mar 2001 15:12:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lu8zlm3l8d.fsf@hci.ucsd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xavier Leroy's message of "Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:51:31 +0200"
Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> writes:
> The "system threads" OCaml library addresses this issue by having one
> global master lock that must be acquired in order to run Caml code or
> call most run-time facilities, including the allocator and the GC.
> This lock is released when calling C from OCaml (allowing other
> threads to execute Caml code) and reacquired again before resuming
> execution of Caml code.
How good or bad an arrangement is this? I've been asked about the
threading facilities of ocaml, but I don't know enough to compare and
contrast, say, ocaml and Java.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-30 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-28 2:19 [Caml-list] Complex Numbers David McClain
2001-03-28 3:38 ` [Caml-list] OCaml, where art thou? Anjayan Puvananathan
2001-03-30 14:51 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-03-30 23:12 ` David Fox [this message]
2001-03-31 9:31 ` [Caml-list] Using HTML as a standard GUI for Ocaml Mattias Waldau
2001-04-01 12:52 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-04-01 20:11 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-04-01 20:35 ` Bruce Hoult
2001-04-02 10:09 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-04-02 15:53 ` CREGUT Pierre FTRD/DTL/LAN
2001-04-02 19:16 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-04-03 18:06 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-04-02 13:21 ` [Caml-list] Threads in OCaml Xavier Leroy
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