Re: OS level threads

Hello, I spotted an MP_SUPPORT macro in the runtime system. Maybe it would be a 
lot of work to make that work.

Vesa

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 12:32:49 +0200 Matthias Kretschmer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> as far as I see there is currently now support for OS level threads in 
> smlnj. Would it be much work to implement this? As far as I can see,
> CML 
> is implemented using the first class continuations. It seems that many 
> companies will produce multi-core chips in the future, so it would be 
> nice to be able to start n OS level threads if n cores/cpus are 
> available in the system and implement the light-weight threads on top
> of 
> it, so one can utilize without much effort all those cores/cpus.
> 
> --
> Matthias Kretschmer
> 
> 


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