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From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: "'Andrei Formiga'" <andrei.formiga@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Efficient OCaml multicore -- roadmap?

Andrei Formiga wrote:
> This looks very interesting. I know there is a lot of hype around
multicore, and
> many programs wouldn't benefit from this...

IME, many programs benefit enormously from multicore. Particularly time
consuming ones. Multicore doesn't have to be hard...

Cheers,
Jon.