Re: [Caml-list] Threads

[james woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>]

On 11 Jun 2005, at 00:46, Christophe Raffalli wrote:
>
> No there is a global mutex for caml thread. The only thing you can do 
> is have one Caml thread and many C threads running in the same time.
>
> This starts really to be an annoying limitation of the Caml runtime 
> now that you can have easily two dual core processors in one machine 
> ... (means four CPU)

Not for me it isn't-- I gave up cooperative scheduling with Mac OS 9.

Now, when I want concurrent, preëmptive multiprocessing, I call fork(2) 
[and often exec(2)], like Nature intended.  I don't know why you folks 
on Win32 platforms continue to put up with such abominable support for 
POSIX interfaces.


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j h woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
that's my village calling... no doubt, they want their idiot back.