Archives of the Caml mailing list > Message from Matthew Hannigan

Browse thread

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:	2006-02-09 (23:24)
From:	Matthew Hannigan <mlh@z...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] How to write efficient threaded programs on OCaml

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:39:05PM +0100, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
> Yet, what conclusion should I draw? Is the GNU/Debian/Linux-2.6 threading 
> support creepingly slow, or does ocaml have an insurmountable aversion for 
> threads?

I believe Linux 2.6 threading 'NPTL' is one of the fastest of any OS around.
It is possible to use the back-compatible library though.  I presume
Debian have not forced this!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPTL

Matt