Zitat von "Gerd Stolpmann" <i...@gerd-stolpmann.de>:
Am Montag, den 29.11.2010, 17:12 +0100 schrieb Oliver Bandel:
Zitat von "Gerd Stolpmann" <i...@gerd-stolpmann.de>:
> Am Sonntag, den 28.11.2010, 19:14 +0100 schrieb
> oli...@first.in-berlin.de:
>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:50:58PM +0100, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote:
>> [...]
>> > The main problem was that other languages have bigger standard
>> > libraries, whereas OCaml has a very small one (just what is needed
>> > to compile the compiler, actually). In many problems, you could
>> > benefit from using a very simple shared-memory library (in
>> > mandelbrot, the ocaml multicore solution has to copy the image in a
>> > socket between processes, whereas it could just be in a shared
>> > memory segment),
>>
>>
>> ...so you work on a shared-mem module?!
>
> Don't know what Fabrice is referring to, but at least I work on a
> multicore-enabling library:
>
>
https://godirepo.camlcity.org/svn/lib-ocamlnet2/trunk/code/src/netmulticore/
>
> This is work in progress and highly experimental. What's currently
> available:
>
> - managing processes and resources like files, shared memory objects
> etc.
> - support for message passing via Netcamlbox (another library)
> - low-level only so far: shared memory, including copying Ocaml values
> to and from shm
[...]
You use shared mem(?), but you link only to *.ml files,
and I see no *.c there.
cd ../netsys
it's part of a larger package
ah, ok. :)
How can this be done?
At least not via the libs that are shipped with OCaml?!
I would have expected some *.c for the shared mem part and
the creation of Caml-values....
Ciao,
Oliver
P.S.: OCaml also provides a Thread-Lib, which seems to use pthread-lib.
Normally this should help in making things possible to run
on multiple
cores. What are the restrictions that this does not run that way?
Somehow... when all values are handled via one GC, then those threads
are somehow bound together, but on the other side, it works threaded,
and consumer-worker pipes and such stuff can be used.
So... somehow the GC seems to be the point, where the show will be
stopped? (Anyone who has looked inside OCaml here more detailed?)
Quite easy: there is a global lock, and when Ocaml code runs, this lock
must be acquired. So only one of the pthreads can have this lock,
[...]
Aha, ok.
Thanks for the details.
Wouldn't it be possible for each thread to have it's own GC,
and letting the global lock on global GC only be used, when
global variables are touched?
Then this could be added to the Threads-module...
Ciao,
Oliver
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