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How to write efficient threaded programs on OCaml

Christophe TROESTLER
- Erik de Castro Lopo
  - Christophe TROESTLER
    - Xavier Leroy
      - Matthieu Dubuget
      - Christophe TROESTLER
        
        Alessandro Baretta
        
        Matthew Hannigan
- Florian Weimer
  - Christophe TROESTLER

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@u...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] How to write efficient threaded programs on OCaml

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> 
> * Christophe TROESTLER:
> 
> > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=chameneos&lang=all
> > A qprof profiling reveals that OCaml is spending 63-73% of its time on
> > the function caml_process_pending_signals and 13-18% on
> > pthread_cond_signal.
> 
> Could this be a measuring artifact?  It seems that all Caml code is
> accounted for in caml_process_pending_signals.

Maybe.  This is why I asked on the maling list : to have the opinions
of people more knowledgeable than me on this subject.

Cheers,
ChriS