From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Jason Ganetsky <jason.ganetsky@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Multiprocessor support in OCaml
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:44:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070422084420.GA21253@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab351c020704220042x6e139375wa97393247ccc4867@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 03:42:09AM -0400, Jason Ganetsky wrote:
> I'm new to this list, and new to OCaml (although, have some experience with
> SML).
There's a beginner's list:
> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners
> Anyway, I have recently written an OCaml thread pool implementation, on top
> of the Thread and Event modules. I did this for the purpose of exploiting an
> SMP system I have, and was a disappointed to read today that OCaml doesn't
> support multiprocessor systems.
>
> I played around with it a little, and discovered that by liberally calling
> Thread.yield, I do cajole my threads into running on multiple processors. Is
> this behavior normal, or have I discovered a problem with the Thread module?
> I'm certainly happy that I can get it to use my SMP... but I will stop it at
> once if you tell me that this is unsafe.
The garbage collector doesn't support concurrency, so there's a big
global lock around all OCaml code.
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2002/11/64c14acb90cb14bedb2cacb73338fb15.en.html
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-22 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-22 7:42 Jason Ganetsky
2007-04-22 8:44 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2007-04-22 10:30 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2007-04-22 11:55 ` Don Syme
2007-04-22 10:58 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-04-22 13:23 ` Jon Harrop
2007-04-22 17:32 ` Zheng Li
[not found] ` <ab351c020704221052v50ce66b6maec299889a2c1f1f@mail.gmail.com>
2007-04-22 17:52 ` [Caml-list] " Jason Ganetsky
2007-04-23 8:10 ` Richard Jones
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