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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | SooHyoung Oh <shoh@c...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] C-threads & callbacks |
I'v resolved the same problem using TCP/IP communication between Ocaml thread and C thread. Markus Mottl 쓴 글: >Hi, > >I'm currently interfacing a 3rd-party library that spawns threads >to execute callbacks. I would like those callbacks to be handled by >OCaml-code, but have run into some issues here. > >As it seems, it is not possible to run OCaml-code linked with thread >support while letting C-threads perform callbacks. This has already >been a topic on the list a while ago. > >I have two solutions in mind: the first one would involve pre-spawning >an OCaml-thread and pass data from C to OCaml through an OCaml-reference >exposed to C, protected by mutexes and condition variables. This seems >pretty ugly, because it's error-prone and also involves a considerable >amount of context-switching, which is bad for my application (very high >volume realtime data). > >The second solution would require setting up an OCaml thread descriptor >for the currently executing C-thread. However, AFAIK this solution >cannot be implemented without fiddling with the implementation of the >OCaml-runtime, because some global variables for thread-handling are not >exposed to user code (i.e. "static"). It would be great if the thread >implementation offered functions allowing users to have their C-threads >"migrate" to OCaml. > >Does anybody know of another elegant and efficient solution for this >problem that does not require hacking the OCaml-runtime? > >Best regards, >Markus > >_______________________________________________ >Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: >http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list >Archives: http://caml.inria.fr >Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners >Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs > > >