Re: [Caml-list] Need advice for a mobile application server

[Eray Ozkural <exa@kablonet.com.tr>]

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,

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