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From: Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>
To: Julian <chasm@rift.sytes.net>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Threaded ocaml code, native threads, and linux SMP
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:50:40 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041216184900.B90399@demos.bsdclusters.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Cf7ZG-0001Vp-00@galileo.rift>

MT garbage collection is both complex and fairly high in overhead. Ocaml
only supports user level threads. If you want to use both processors you
need to use multiple processes.

		-Kip



On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Julian wrote:

> I wrote the following CPU-bound function in order to test the
> Thread module in ocaml:
>
>     let rec loop pair = match pair with
>               (100000, 50000) -> ()
>             | (     i, 50000) -> loop (i+1, 0)
>             | (     i,     j) -> loop (i, j+1) ;;
>
> This function was used in two test programs:
>
> * Version 1 *
>
>     let t1, t2 = Thread.create loop (0,0),
>                  Thread.create loop (0,0) ;;
>
>     Thread.join t1;;
>     Thread.join t2;;
>
>
> * Version 2 *
>
>     loop (0,0);
>     loop (0,0);;
>
>
> The test programs were each compiled with the following command:
> (ocaml 3.08, debian sid, linux kernel 2.6):
>
>     ocamlopt -thread -o <name> unix.cmxa threads.cmxa <name>.ml
>
>
> I then tried running the two versions on an SMP machine. I found that
> whereas I expected version 1 to run roughly twice as fast, they actually
> took the same amount of time.
>
> Closer inspection using "ps" revealed that only one processor was being
> used. When I wrote a similar test program in C, calling the pthread
> functions directly, the threads were run on separate CPUs as expected.
>
> The "ldd" command reveals that the C version and the ocaml version were
> relying on the same native pthread library.
>
> So why doesn't the ocaml version use 2 processors?
> Is it a flaw with my program?
> Did I compile the program incorrectly?
>
>
> Thanks for any help you can give,
> Julian
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17  2:50 UTC|newest]

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2004-12-17  2:10 Julian
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