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From: Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlnet and kernel poll
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:43:24 +0100
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On Sep 11, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Markus Mottl wrote:

> Use bigstrings as buffers and
> perform I/O outside of the OCaml-lock if releasing it (depends on
> I/O-size) is more efficient.

Are you suggesting using multiple OS threads within a single process?

When exactly do you release the lock and how do you perform IO outside  
of it?

How do you determine whether to release the lock or not?

	Thanks, Joel

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