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From: Eray Ozkural <examachine@g...>
Subject: Re: Threading and SharedMem (Re: [Caml-list] Re: Is OCaml fast?) 
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:55 PM, <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>
> (A thread-specific GC for thread-specific variables would help here,
>  making global locks only necessary when accessing global used variables.
>  But I don't know if such a way would be possible without changing the
> GC-stuff
>  itself.)
>
>
Seconded, why is this not possible? That is to say, why cannot each thread
maintain a separate GC, if so desired?

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