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[Caml-list] Why systhreads?

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

Vitaly Lugovsky <vsl@ontil.ihep.su> 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


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