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From: Edwin Young <edyoung@microsoft.com>
To: "'caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr'" <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: Interpreter vs hardware threads
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:10:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81C332E378E8D011BFC900805F19E05A145318DA@WSH-02-MSG> (raw)

From: William Chesters [mailto:williamc@paneris.org]
> Judging by Max's .sig he's doing embedded telecoms boxes,
> something like a GSM HLR which juggles many thousands of concurrent
> transactions in some ghastly protocol or other.

If that's the case, perhaps he should investigate Erlang. Since it was
designed by Ericsson specifically for embedded telephony apps, it would seem
an ideal fit. It does indeed support thousands of concurrent threads
(internal to the interpreter rather than OS-based).

Regards,

--
Edwin Young



             reply	other threads:[~2000-03-06 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-03  9:10 Edwin Young [this message]
2000-03-06 13:42 ` William Chesters
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-03-10 18:01 Manuel Fahndrich
2000-03-07  9:06 Simon Peyton-Jones
2000-03-07  8:30 Simon Peyton-Jones
2000-03-08 20:02 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-12  1:45   ` Julian Assange
2000-03-03 12:12 Juergen Pfitzenmaier
2000-03-02 17:25 David Gurr
2000-02-25 13:37 mixing Ocaml with another GC-ed language STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2000-03-01  3:52 ` Interpreter vs hardware threads Max Skaller
2000-03-01 18:55   ` Michael Hicks
2000-03-01 20:02   ` Stefan Monnier
2000-03-02 18:18     ` William Chesters
2000-03-03 16:59       ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-06 17:35       ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-06 23:11         ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-07 13:19         ` Julian Assange
2000-03-08 20:12           ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-19  6:10             ` Julian Assange
2000-03-08 23:30           ` Max Skaller

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