From: Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
Cc: Robert Fischer <robert@fischerventure.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Has the thread cancellation problem evolved ?
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:12:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070829081223.GA7954@capsaicin.mamane.lu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D43B68.1000206@janestcapital.com>
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:12:40AM -0400, Brian Hurt wrote:
> Robert Fischer wrote:
>> Brian Hurt wrote:
> Until you get someone "clever", who does something like (in Ocaml):
> let rec do_my_work () =
> try
> do_a_bunch_of_work ()
> with
> | Thread_abort_exception ->
> (* Ack! Someone tried to kill me! I refuse to die! *)
> do_my_work ()
> ;;
> I suppose eventually you'd blow stack.
Nah, that recursion is a tail recursion, so stack use doesn't grow :)
--
Lionel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-29 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-25 13:58 Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-25 15:29 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-08-26 23:47 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-27 0:18 ` Till Varoquaux
2007-08-27 4:38 ` skaller
2007-08-27 10:12 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-27 11:28 ` skaller
2007-08-27 11:49 ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-27 12:24 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-27 12:38 ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-27 13:09 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-27 14:27 ` skaller
2007-08-27 7:55 ` Markus E L
2007-08-27 23:33 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-08-28 9:26 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-28 11:42 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-08-28 14:46 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-28 14:23 ` Gordon Henriksen
2007-08-28 14:35 ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-28 14:44 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-28 14:54 ` Robert Fischer
2007-08-28 15:12 ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-28 15:32 ` Gordon Henriksen
2007-08-28 15:40 ` skaller
2007-08-29 8:12 ` Lionel Elie Mamane [this message]
2007-08-28 15:00 ` Gordon Henriksen
2007-08-25 15:44 ` skaller
2007-08-26 23:24 ` Alain Frisch
2007-08-25 15:57 ` Gordon Henriksen
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