Re:Multicore OCaml: Feb 2021 with new preprint on Effect Han...
by dgllghr on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:19PM
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Cool! Glad to hear there is still work being done there. I was able to find the presentation I was thinking of: https://kcsrk.info/slides/handlers_edinburgh.pdf
Specifically the part about Preemptive Multithreading
Effects that 'interrupt' a fiber are asynchronous effects. They can be used to implement schedulers and the like. We don't currently support them in Multicore, there's still a few open research questions as to how to reconile them with the effect system.