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[Caml-list] Kinds of threads

Alessandro Baretta
- Michaël_Grünewald
  - Alessandro Baretta
    - Remi VANICAT
    - Xavier Leroy
      - Stefano Zacchiroli
      - Sven Luther
    - Benjamin Monate
      - Yang Shouxun
        
        Sven LUTHER
        
        Jérôme_Marant

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Sven Luther <luther@l...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Re: Kinds of threads

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:12:38AM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > The docs say that there are two kinds of threads in O'Caml: 
> > Ocaml bytecode threads and POSIX threads, and that it is 
> > possible to select which implementation to use at compiler 
> > build time. Two questions: first, what is the implementation 
> > chosen in the ocaml RPM distribution
> 
> The RPMs distributed by INRIA use bytecode threads.  That might not be
> true of RPMs and Debian packages built by third parties.

I build debian packages with the --with-pthread option, so this means
POSIX threads.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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