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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