From: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Regarding SMP computing
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:52:50 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060926.165250.28504134.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8560b80609260737m20613c81l5e3d51ce65351a32@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, "Markus Mottl" <markus.mottl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...] We have some applications that would greatly benefit from this
> feature, too: they require an enormous amount of static background
> knowledge, and have to use it for small jobs which can be easily
> distributed. We have multi-core, multi-processor machines, and
> would be able to greatly speed up our compute jobs if we could put
> these large OCaml-values into a shared-memory region. It would save
> us both a hell lot of memory (probably in the range of GBs per
> machine for some jobs), and also make the GC work less hard marking
> data that is not going to be reclaimed anyway.
Just on the top of my head, how about to use memcached
<http://www.danga.com/memcached/> for this (with Marshal'ing) ?
Just a thought,
ChriS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-26 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-25 12:13 Jacques Carette
2006-09-25 13:40 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-09-25 19:41 ` Richard Jones
2006-09-25 19:57 ` Yoann Padioleau
2006-09-27 21:10 ` David M. Cooke
2006-09-26 11:57 ` [Caml-list] " Damien Doligez
2006-09-26 14:37 ` Markus Mottl
2006-09-26 14:52 ` Christophe TROESTLER [this message]
2006-09-26 15:46 ` Markus Mottl
2006-09-26 15:01 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2006-09-26 18:56 ` Richard Jones
2006-09-27 12:14 ` Richard Jones
2006-09-27 16:05 ` Richard Jones
2006-09-27 17:35 ` [Caml-list] out-of-heap data structures [was: Regarding SMP computing] Xavier Leroy
2006-09-26 1:41 [Caml-list] Regarding SMP computing Jonathan T Bryant
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