From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFB7BC6B for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:38:27 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAABBZ7kbLENaMnmdsb2JhbACOFQIHBAYPGA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,265,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="1320430" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 17 Sep 2007 19:39:26 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8HHcqcO023837 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:38:53 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAABBZ7kbLENaMnmdsb2JhbACOFQIHBAYPGA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,265,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="1320429" Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.140]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 17 Sep 2007 19:39:24 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAOBX7kZ5LHvc/2dsb2JhbAAM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,265,1186324200"; d="scan'208";a="192922501" Received: from ppp121-44-123-220.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.123.220]) by ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 18 Sep 2007 03:09:21 +0930 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [ANN] coThreads 0.10 From: skaller To: Zheng Li Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <87sl5d8cgd.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> References: <87lkb5fe3f.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <87sl5d8cgd.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:39:20 +1000 Message-Id: <1190050760.6058.80.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 46EEBBAC.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0200,:01 speedup:01 speedup:01 model:01 ocaml:01 compiler:01 0.10:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 networker:03 library:03 passing:05 john:08 i'm:09 On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 18:48 +0200, Zheng Li wrote: > * The process engine can give you real speedup on multi-core and > multi-processor machines, the networker engine (todo) will give you both > speedup and scalability. I'm curious how this can be possible**.. is this only with the message passing model? ** Since Ocaml can't multi-process and neither the compiler nor library are modified .. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net