From: "Berke Durak" <berke.durak@gmail.com>
To: "Richard Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Ancient, concurrency, etc.
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 14:24:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b903a8570805100524x22e19715i7de6de54fceffe7d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080510111730.GA8755@annexia.org>
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Richard,
There is no need to get angry.
Ancient is a nice and useful module. Thank you for writing and sharing
it.
You brought it forward as a solution for inter-process message-passing after
I proposed a faster Marshal designed for shared memory IPC. Ancient could
fulfill that role, provided someone writes a way to copy a value out of the
ancient heap, otherwise we'll (a) miss the usual polymorphic operators and
(b) risk storing dangling references or inappropriately mutating ancient
values. That's just a small function and would increase the usefulness of
your module.
PS.Maybe a 64-bit address space would be enough to generate a unique address
for every ancient value so that they could be deleted using munmap.
--
Berke
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-10 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-10 9:09 Berke Durak
2008-05-10 11:17 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-10 12:24 ` Berke Durak [this message]
2008-05-11 4:15 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-05-11 7:22 ` Richard Jones
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