]> Hello Xavier, On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:27, Xavier Leroy wrote: > You can safely say LinuxThreads is slightly borken, in that lack of > thread support in the Linux kernel (until recently) prevented full > compliance with the POSIX standard. These quirks affected some fairly > obscure corners of the POSIX spec, though. In particular, the earlier > comment that "LinuxThreads creates all threads detached" is not > accurate: thread creation and joining was implemented correctly. > I suppose. I bet I have seen some strange quirks which somehow made a thread wrapper library in C++ I had written incompatible across linux and solaris. I guess I had thought Solaris kernel got it right, but I ended up not having understood the reasons, at least not from the user documentation. > Back to the original question: writing a multithreaded server in OCaml > is definitely feasible. The only limitation to be aware of is that > OCaml threads do not offer parallelism, just concurrent execution. > What this means is that if there are several processors on your > machine, only one can execute OCaml code at any time, but other > threads (and therefore possibly other processors) can do I/O or C > computations in parallel. Thanks for the info. I couldn't quite figure out why only one proc. can execute ocaml code yet, but I can dig into the documentation :) Regards, -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara KDE Project: http://www.kde.org www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo Malfunction: http://mp3.com/ariza GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners