From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: "'Alexy Khrabrov'" <deliverable@gmail.com>
Cc: "'Caml List'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Efficient OCaml multicore -- roadmap?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02c201cbffae$bea46bb0$3bed4310$@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FB4D44C8-1B8E-405B-9734-53CA3A9AE1AB@gmail.com>
Alexy wrote:
> Jon -- based on your extensive expertise with F#, what do you think
> is the main obstacle for OCaml to get the same kind of parallelism
> which F# enjoys through .NET?
I think motive is the only obstacle. Nobody is sufficiently motivated to do
this.
The OCaml team at INRIA are not motivated to do this because it does not
constitute research, would probably make Coq slower and would burden them
with maintaining irrelevant features.
OCaml users just migrate to other languages that are closer to what they
want rather than spending years learning how to build a parallel OCaml, then
doing it and then building a community around it. The only notable exception
might be Jane St. Capital because they have the resources and a vested
interest in performance. There are other large companies invested in OCaml,
like Citrix, but they aren't so interested in parallelism.
Cheers,
Jon.
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2011-03-24 23:13 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-03-25 0:23 ` [Caml-list] " Sylvain Le Gall
2011-03-25 9:55 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2011-03-25 11:44 ` Gerd Stolpmann
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2011-03-25 10:23 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-03-25 12:07 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-16 12:12 ` Jon Harrop
2011-03-25 10:51 ` Hugo Ferreira
2011-03-25 12:25 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-03-25 12:58 ` Hugo Ferreira
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2011-03-25 13:10 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-03-25 13:41 ` Dario Teixeira
2011-03-30 18:12 ` Jon Harrop
2011-03-25 15:44 ` Hugo Ferreira
2011-03-25 18:24 ` Martin Jambon
2011-03-25 19:19 ` Hugo Ferreira
2011-03-25 20:26 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-03-26 9:11 ` Hugo Ferreira
2011-03-26 10:31 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-03-30 16:56 ` Jon Harrop
2011-03-30 19:24 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-04-20 21:44 ` Jon Harrop
2011-04-19 9:57 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-04-19 10:05 ` Hugo Ferreira
2011-04-19 20:26 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-20 7:59 ` Hugo Ferreira
2011-04-20 12:30 ` Markus Mottl
2011-04-20 12:53 ` Hugo Ferreira
2011-04-20 13:22 ` Markus Mottl
2011-04-20 14:00 ` Edgar Friendly
2011-04-19 22:49 ` Jon Harrop
2011-03-30 17:02 ` Jon Harrop
2011-04-20 19:23 ` Jon Harrop
2011-04-20 20:05 ` Alexy Khrabrov
2011-04-20 23:00 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
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2011-04-21 7:48 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-04-21 8:35 ` Hugo Ferreira
2011-04-23 17:32 ` Jon Harrop
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2011-04-22 8:06 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-04-22 9:11 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-23 10:17 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-04-23 13:47 ` Alexy Khrabrov
2011-04-23 17:39 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-04-23 20:18 ` Alexy Khrabrov
2011-04-23 21:18 ` Jon Harrop
2011-04-24 0:33 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-04-28 14:42 ` orbitz
2011-04-23 19:02 ` Jon Harrop
2011-04-22 9:44 ` Vincent Aravantinos
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2011-04-21 19:53 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2011-04-22 8:34 ` Alain Frisch
2011-04-21 10:09 ` Philippe Strauss
2011-04-23 17:44 ` Jon Harrop
2011-04-23 17:05 ` Jon Harrop
2011-04-20 20:30 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-20 23:33 ` Jon Harrop
2011-03-25 20:27 ` Philippe Strauss
2011-04-19 22:47 ` Jon Harrop
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2011-04-20 9:25 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-03-25 18:45 ` Andrei Formiga
2011-03-30 17:00 ` Jon Harrop
2011-04-13 3:36 ` Lucas Dixon
2011-04-13 13:01 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-13 13:09 ` Lucas Dixon
2011-04-13 23:04 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-04-16 13:54 ` Jon Harrop
2011-03-24 13:44 Alexy Khrabrov
2011-03-24 14:57 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-03-24 15:03 ` Joel Reymont
2011-03-24 15:28 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-24 15:48 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-03-24 15:38 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-03-25 19:49 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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