From: William Chesters <williamc@paneris.org>
To: "'caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr'" <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: Interpreter vs hardware threads
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:42:34 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200003061342.NAA26918@toy.william.bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81C332E378E8D011BFC900805F19E05A145318DA@WSH-02-MSG>
Edwin Young writes:
> From: William Chesters [mailto:williamc@paneris.org]
> > Judging by Max's .sig he's doing embedded telecoms boxes,
> > something like a GSM HLR which juggles many thousands of concurrent
> > transactions in some ghastly protocol or other.
>
> If that's the case, perhaps he should investigate Erlang. Since it was
> designed by Ericsson specifically for embedded telephony apps, it would seem
> an ideal fit. It does indeed support thousands of concurrent threads
> (internal to the interpreter rather than OS-based).
Absolutely, and Erlang looked great to me, except (ironically) I
couldn't help feeling that the lack of imperative data structures was
going to be a bit of a pain. However they were apparently going to
fix that.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-03 9:10 Edwin Young
2000-03-06 13:42 ` William Chesters [this message]
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2000-03-10 18:01 Manuel Fahndrich
2000-03-07 9:06 Simon Peyton-Jones
2000-03-07 8:30 Simon Peyton-Jones
2000-03-08 20:02 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-12 1:45 ` Julian Assange
2000-03-03 12:12 Juergen Pfitzenmaier
2000-03-02 17:25 David Gurr
2000-02-25 13:37 mixing Ocaml with another GC-ed language STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2000-03-01 3:52 ` Interpreter vs hardware threads Max Skaller
2000-03-01 18:55 ` Michael Hicks
2000-03-01 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2000-03-02 18:18 ` William Chesters
2000-03-03 16:59 ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-06 17:35 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-06 23:11 ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-07 13:19 ` Julian Assange
2000-03-08 20:12 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-19 6:10 ` Julian Assange
2000-03-08 23:30 ` Max Skaller
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