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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:	Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd@m...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] How to write efficient threaded programs on OCaml

Christophe TROESTLER wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if some among you would like to share some hints about
> how to write efficient multithreaded applications in OCaml.  Indeed,
> for example, the following concurrency test shows OCaml performing
> quite poorly:

This question (or variants of it) comes around quite regularly. The 
standard response is:

    http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/~aschmitt/cwn/2002.11.26.html#8

If this has changed recently, I hope someone will speak up :-).

Erik
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