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From: "Jon Harrop" <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Current state of threading parallelism?
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 00:28:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <012f01cec222$a188b250$e49a16f0$@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131005022537.20edf93e@narfi.yggdrasil.draxit.de>

Francis Dupont wrote:
> Note this was the way followed by Python too for the same reasons

But not by JVM- and CLR-based languages like Java, Scala, C# and F#.

> Well, there are certain problems that can be largely parallelized
> in a way that performance scales well with the number of cores.

All problems can be parallelized such that performance scales well with the
number of cores. Just add redundant parallel computation of the Mandelbrot
set between each line of code. Consequently, it is important not to consider
scalability alone.

Cheers,
Jon.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-05 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-03 23:46 Wolfgang Draxinger
2013-10-03 23:50 ` Francois Berenger
2013-10-04 15:44 ` Francis Dupont
2013-10-05  0:25   ` Wolfgang Draxinger
2013-10-05  1:25     ` Philippe Wang
2013-10-05  3:57       ` Francois Berenger
2013-10-05 23:28     ` Jon Harrop [this message]

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