On 03/06/2021 19:17, Christophe Raffalli wrote:
> Hello dear camlers,
>
> I just noticed that in 4.12+effect, in the road to multicore, we have now the
> nice exception:
>
>    Failure("Serializing closures is broken in multicore")
>
> This is a bit a pity: if you want to use both multicore and multi-machine
> parallelism, then, marshalling closures was useful for communication between
> machines in some cases. Is it a final decision or serialization of closures will
> be lost forever in OCaml ?


My guess is that serialization of closures might work in bytecode, and 
is broken in native, in relation to ASLR 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization>.

Of course, I could be very wrong.


Cheers

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