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From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why 'Graphics.wait_next_event' doesn't reply anymore ?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:33:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1194827616.47379f60f3320@webmail.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071111183530.GA19575@localhost>

Zitat von Julien Moutinho <julien.moutinho@gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 05:48:34PM +0100, Oliver Bandel wrote:
> > [...]
> > This code looks ugly.
> I've just noticed the id := Some (Thread.create run ())
> coupled with the [while !id <> None do] in run:
[...]

I didn't saw this code in the program that I'm talking about :-)


[...]
>
> > Why?
> > [...]
> > It forces calls to the scheduler all too often.
> > And it does it at three places. And in the print-loop
> > it clals it every time!
> Are you sure?

Yes!

And the loop in the main-thread, that does nothing else but
calling Thread.yield is even worse!

Two busy threads running wild against one
most-of-the-time sleeping thread...
...and always these Thread.yield-calls,
that only add unnecessary business...

Ciao,
   Oliver


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-12  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-10 22:01 Fabrice Marchant
2007-11-11 14:07 ` [Caml-list] " Fabrice Marchant
2007-11-11 16:48   ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-11 18:35     ` Julien Moutinho
2007-11-11 20:13       ` Fabrice Marchant
2007-11-12  0:33       ` Oliver Bandel [this message]
2007-11-11 19:40     ` Fabrice Marchant
2007-11-12  0:43       ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-12 19:54         ` Fabrice Marchant
2007-11-12 21:18           ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-13  7:45             ` Fabrice Marchant
2007-11-13 10:14               ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-13 20:10                 ` Fabrice Marchant
2007-11-14  0:33                   ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-12  0:46       ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-12  6:18       ` Oliver Bandel

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