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Blikkentrekker on March 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Multicore OCaml: Feb 2021 with new preprint on Eff...

It was my understanding that OCaml without a global runtime lock had existed for quite a while and could be optionally enabled, but in practice only made things slower as it significantly slowed down garbage collection. — was my understanding wrong?

anuragsoni on March 11, 2021 [–]

> was my understanding wrong?

I believe so. There hasn't been any ocaml release where you can opt in to removing the global runtime lock.

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