Thanks for the insight David.

I also found this email from Xavier Leroy
(http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2002/11/64c14acb90cb14bedb2cacb73338fb15.en.html).
I will start with a single context (eventually built from several
scripts). If someone ever needs distributed computing, it's easy to
run several instances of Rubyk passing messages.

Just a final question on the topic: has JoCaml anything to do with
this concurrency (shared memory) question ?

Gaspard

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:14 AM, David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2010/7/9 Gaspard Bucher <gaspard@teti.ch>:
>> From my understanding of the use of
>> caml_startup (or caml_main), this means that the caml runtime is
>> global.
>
> Yes.
>
>> Is there a way to avoid:
>>
>> 1. global locking (or locking only during script recompilation)
>
> I don't think so.
>
>> 2. script level encapsulation
>
> I don't know.
>
>
> You might play with the C symbols and a bit a C pre-processing to
> generate several different OCaml runtimes that would be linked with
> you application. But, as far as I know, the OCaml runtime has not be
> designed to be included several times within the same application.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> david
>