Integrating the VM with the OS

[Jon Harrop]

There's some interesting work going on at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory
on a project called Mirage which has integrated OCaml's virtual machine with
the OS in order to avoid the overhead of things like context switching
between threads:

http://www.openmirage.org/

So the OS can run async code directly without the unnecessary abstraction of
threads and thread pools.

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Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com