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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:	2006-02-13 (10:28)
From:	Florian Weimer <fw@d...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] How to write efficient threaded programs on OCaml

* 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.