[m-users.] What is the threading model

[Paul Bone]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:50:25PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Paul Bone wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:25:19AM +1300, ardeujho wrote:
>>> What is the threading model of Mercury? Does it depend on the grades? Is
>>> it native threads or some form of green threads?
>>
>> It's grade dependent, basically:
>>
>> low level C:    green threads running on a fixed number of OS threads.
>> high level C:   OS threads only
>> Java:           Java's threads
>> C#:             C#'s threads, I think I don't really know
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> Yes, it uses C#'s threads.
>
>> In the C grades you must have the .par grade component to access these
>> features.
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> In high-level C grades you must have .par grade component.  The thread
> features will work in low-level C grades without it, but you won't
> (obviously) get parallel execution of threads without it.

It may be more limited than that in the low-level C grades.  I know that's
how it used to be but it may have changed when I re-wrote the task switching
code for the parallel grades.  I didn't change anything to do with the
non-parallel grades specifically, but if we assume the worst then they may
be broken in this respect.  It's easier to say that it's not currently
supported.


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Paul Bone