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[Yaron Minsky]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:22 PM, ocaml-core <
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> From: Stephen Weeks <sweeks at janestreet.com>
> To: Yaron Minsky <yminsky at janestreet.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:22:25 -0500
> Subject: Re: Making Async play better with others
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> > Stephen, what do you think about Markus' proposal for how to organize
> > it?
>
> I am highly skeptical of the approach of propagating Linux submodules and
> conditional compilation throughout the codebase.  I think it would be
> preferable
> to design a platform-agnostic interface at the OCaml/C boundary,
> implemented on
> the C side using platform-specific C files with minimal conditional
> compilation
> at the C level and no conditional compilation at the OCaml level.
>  Platforms
> that are unable to implement particular aspects of the interfaces should
> provide
> functions that raise exceptions.  Then all OCaml code compiles everywhere,
> and
> it one gets on each platform the maximum ability to run what is actually
> implemented.
>
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