Jonathan Bryant a écrit :

>I'm confused.  In the documentation on the threads library it says that
>the threads implementation is shared time on only a single processor. 
>Is that for VM and system threads, or are the POSIX threads able to take
>advantage of multiple processors?  I would think they would be able to
>because (unless I'm mistaken) they're just wrappers around the C system
>calls...
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No there is a global mutex for caml thread. The only thing you can do is 
have one Caml thread and many C threads running in the same time.

This starts really to be an annoying limitation of the Caml runtime now 
that you can have easily two dual core processors in one machine ... 
(means four CPU)





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