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From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
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Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Efficient OCaml multicore -- roadmap?

Richard Jones wrote:
> The sort of high end hardware we're seeing now has 128 cores and hundreds
of
> gigabytes or even a terabyte of non-uniform RAM.

FWIW, Azul have been shipping 864-core machines for years now. Note also
that they use a single multi-threaded GC for the JVM to write efficient
parallel code (albeit with some hardware support) and not separate GCs with
message passing (which is basically unheard of). 

Cheers,
Jon.