From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA14620; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:36:31 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA14525 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:36:30 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (r-mi214-6a130.tin.it [62.211.4.130]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g8UDaTD21814 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:36:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A52B27249 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:46:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D98559D.2060100@baretta.com> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:46:05 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ocaml Subject: [Caml-list] Kinds of threads Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk The docs say that there are two kinds of threads in O'Caml: Ocaml bytecode threads and POSIX threads, and that it is possible to select which implementation to use at compiler build time. Two questions: first, what is the implementation chosen in the ocaml RPM distribution; second, why must one choose one implementation at compiler build time? Why not use a compiler switch such as --posix-threads as opposed to --caml-threads? Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners