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Can GC be BLOCKed?

Neal Wang
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Date:	2006-12-02 (10:04)
From:	Dmitry Bely <dmitry.bely@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Can GC be BLOCKed?

On 12/2/06, Philippe Wang <lists@philippewang.info> wrote:

> You can't try to use the thread system to do something like that.
>
> There is a global mutex with OCaml threads !
> So a program written in OCaml will not be faster by using threads...

Sure, I know that. But C thread and OCaml thread can run in parallel.
Why not to do gc in another thread when you are in C and there is no
job for OCaml?

- Dmitry Bely