From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA22348 for caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:08:38 +0100 (MET) Resent-Message-Id: <200003061308.OAA22348@pauillac.inria.fr> Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA18182 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:11:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail5.microsoft.com (mail5.microsoft.com [131.107.3.121]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA02817 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:11:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from 157.54.9.108 by mail5.microsoft.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Fri, 03 Mar 2000 01:10:13 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) Received: by INET-IMC-05 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58) id ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:10:12 -0800 Message-ID: <81C332E378E8D011BFC900805F19E05A145318DA@WSH-02-MSG> From: Edwin Young To: "'caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr'" Subject: RE: Interpreter vs hardware threads Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:10:05 -0800 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58) Resent-From: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Resent-Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:08:38 +0100 Resent-To: caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr 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