Re: [Caml-list] Multicore runtime

[Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com>]

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I have another question about the runtime. I believe it was mentioned in
the talk that there would be work-stealing between the domains. But how can
we have any work-stealing when the fibers are integrated deeply inside the
domains' local heaps?

-Yotam

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen <
jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:
>
>> Indeed, our fiber model is compatible with filesystem I/O, but does not
>> *mandate* that implementations support threads if a better-than-POSIX
>> model is available on the target operating system.  Async I/O works fine
>> on Windows for instance, and does not require a thread-per-operation.
>>
>
> I fully agree with this point! The trick is to take the view from fibers
> and down rather than from a (specific) kernel and up. And you can easily
> make this run asynchronously on systems where it is really possible to do
> so.
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>
> --
> J.
>

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