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From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: "'Goswin von Brederlow'" <goswin-v-b@web.de>
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Subject: RE: [Caml-list] SMP multithreading
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> This is actually a quick way to use multiple cores with ocaml. Find a
> often called function that takes considerable time and offload it to C

Or HLVM, F#, Scala, Clojure or any of the other languages that permit shared
memory parallelism. C is particularly poor in this regard so I would not
just restrict yourself to C...

Cheers,
Jon.