From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA30782; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:34:52 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA30820 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:34:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from lobus.fungible.com (adsl-64-161-114-6.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.161.114.6]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gARFYn118790 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:34:49 +0100 (MET) Received: by lobus.fungible.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 107B47F86; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:34:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:33:04 -0700 From-Tims-Fingers: true To: vsl@ontil.ihep.su Cc: dbely@mail.ru, caml-list@inria.fr In-reply-to: (message from Vitaly Lugovsky on Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:14:33 +0300 (MSK)) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why systhreads? References: Message-Id: <20021127153447.107B47F86@lobus.fungible.com> From: tim@fungible.com (Tim Freeman) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > I tried OCaml in a non memory-consuming numerical applications on SMP. >Seems to work well enough (100% load of all the processors). Wrong metric. You want speedup, not CPU utilization. You can get CPU utilization for free by running an infinite loop. Did the application run anywhere near N times faster when you were using N processors? -- Tim Freeman tim@fungible.com GPG public key fingerprint ECDF 46F8 3B80 BB9E 575D 7180 76DF FE00 34B1 5C78 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners