From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Thread Local Storage
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:21:29 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139955690.8591.799.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87irrhtya3.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 22:40 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > TLS is entirely a legacy application backwards compatibility hack
> > designed to support badly designed C applications.
>
> TLS helps a lot on a certain register-starved architecture because you
> don't need to keep a pointer to the thread data structure around in
> case you don't need it (but called functions might).
What's wrong with placing it on the stack?
[Better not be anything wrong with it .. because Felix
actually does precisely that :]
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-13 4:29 [Caml-list] " Jonathan Roewen
2006-02-13 10:05 ` Vincenzo Ciancia
2006-02-14 2:40 ` [Caml-list] " Jonathan Roewen
2006-02-14 4:06 ` skaller
2006-02-14 21:40 ` Florian Weimer
2006-02-14 22:21 ` skaller [this message]
2006-03-01 7:37 ` Florian Weimer
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