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From: "Jérémie Dimino" <jeremie@dimino.org>
To: "Török Edwin" <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] scalable web apps
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:59:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100726075901.GA5561@aurora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100726102904.10ed4768@deb0>

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:29:04AM +0300, Török Edwin wrote:
> Lwt's Lwt_preemptive seems to allow one to use 'preemptive
> threads' (which I assume are just usual OCaml threads).
> So would it be possible to put the file I/O on Lwt_preemptive.detach
> threads?

Yes.

> Has anyone tried to measure the performance of doing that?

Yes, i tried it some time ago with two small C programs which were just
reading a file on the disk. One doing read operations in a simple loop,
and one launching a thread for each read operation (or reusing the same
thread). The threaded version was about 100 times slower than the
non-threaded one.

BTW it is planed to add some kind of asynchronous file I/O support in
Lwt by using mmap and mincore.

Best,

-- 
Jérémie


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-26  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-24  7:49 Joel Reymont
2010-07-24  8:57 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-07-24 10:55 ` [Caml-list] " William Le Ferrand
2010-07-25 13:52 ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-25 19:19   ` Joel Reymont
2010-07-26  7:29   ` Török Edwin
2010-07-26  7:59     ` Jérémie Dimino [this message]
2010-07-26  8:19       ` Török Edwin
2010-07-27  6:46         ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-07-26 11:27       ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-26 19:57       ` Jake Donham
2010-07-26 20:02         ` Török Edwin
2010-07-27  6:55         ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-07-26  9:11   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-07-26 11:10     ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2010-07-26 12:58       ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-07-26 13:20         ` [Caml-list] " William Le Ferrand
2010-07-25 19:46 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2010-07-25 21:45   ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-25 21:56     ` Joel Reymont
2010-07-25 22:03       ` Gabriel Kerneis
2010-07-25 22:24       ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-26  7:34       ` Richard Jones
2010-07-26 11:20         ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-26 16:50           ` Florent Monnier
2010-07-26 17:10             ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-07-26 17:21               ` [Caml-list] " Gabriel Kerneis
2010-07-26 17:37                 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-07-25 22:44     ` [Caml-list] " Yoann Padioleau
2010-07-26  9:08       ` Sylvain Le Gall

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