[zeromq-dev] Introducing Caravan: Simple, Faithful ZMQ-Bindings for Objective Caml (Pedro Borges)

[Pedro Borges]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Brian Ledger <bpl29 at cornell.edu> wrote:


> * It's profitable to map libzmq's API closely (including to keep
> zero-copy functionality) but it's also profitable to build
> abstractions on top.

Unfortunately implementing zero-copy in ocaml is impossible, AFAIK,
without blocking every other thread. If another thread makes an
allocation the GC might move the string you are trying to send.