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[Caml-list] Why systhreads?

Lauri Alanko
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- Vitaly Lugovsky
  - Dmitry Bely
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        Vitaly Lugovsky
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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Vitaly Lugovsky <vsl@o...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Why systhreads?

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Dmitry Bely wrote:

> >> 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).

 I tried OCaml in a non memory-consuming numerical applications on SMP.
Seems to work well enough (100% load of all the processors).


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