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From: Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Chambart <pierre.chambart@laposte.net>
Cc: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>, Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Thread behaviour
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:37:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOg1smC8pJt=o4y1Ben6N+FkDNqOgMSWm1iXQZdqaaBrFENCLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524A573B.4030903@laposte.net>

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Agreed here, but it does not preclude of using very lightweight alternative
based on system threads like parmap or functory for the parts have a high
degree of parallerism. (and of course only if your program allows to do
this)


On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Pierre Chambart <pierre.chambart@laposte.net
> wrote:

> On 30/09/2013 05:18, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > On 2013-09-27 12:10, Tom Ridge wrote:
> >> I have a little program which creates a thread, and then sits in a loop:
> >> [...]
> >> When I run the program I get the output:
> >>
> >> 1
> >> 2
> >>
> >> and the program then sits in the loop.
> > It all depends on the whim of the OS scheduler.  OCaml has no control
> > over it.  And you shoudn't expect any kind of fairness from the OS
> > scheduler, esp. Linux's, which gladly jettisons any pretense of
> > fairness in the hope of getting better throughput.
> Usualy, the scheduler is fair when you force all threads to run on the
> same processor.
> But I would still prefer the LWT way for doing message passing.
> --
> Pierre
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-02 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-27 10:10 Tom Ridge
2013-09-27 10:22 ` Simon Cruanes
2013-09-27 10:27 ` Romain Bardou
2013-09-27 10:51   ` Benedikt Grundmann
2013-09-28 19:09     ` Tom Ridge
2013-09-29  7:54       ` Tom Ridge
2013-09-29 12:37         ` Yaron Minsky
2013-09-29 16:25           ` Tom Ridge
2013-09-29 16:46             ` Chet Murthy
2013-09-29 17:18               ` Tom Ridge
2013-09-29 17:47                 ` Chet Murthy
2013-09-30  8:24                   ` Romain Bardou
2013-10-07 14:57                     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2013-09-30  8:16       ` Romain Bardou
2013-10-01  3:32         ` Ivan Gotovchits
2013-10-07 14:49       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2013-09-30  9:18 ` Xavier Leroy
2013-09-30 15:12   ` Tom Ridge
2013-09-30 16:01     ` Török Edwin
2013-09-30 16:56     ` Gabriel Kerneis
2013-09-30 18:18       ` Alain Frisch
2013-10-01  5:01   ` Pierre Chambart
2013-10-01  7:21     ` Gabriel Kerneis
2013-10-02 10:37     ` Wojciech Meyer [this message]
2013-10-02 11:52       ` Francois Berenger
2013-10-02 11:58         ` Wojciech Meyer

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