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=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F0BBC68 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:53:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hedwig1.umh.ac.be (hedwig2.umh.ac.be [193.190.193.73]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8QErCTS025443 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:53:12 +0200 Received: from poincare.swapping.umh.ac.be (mathwifi.swapping.umh.ac.be [10.102.100.203]) by hedwig1.umh.ac.be (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8QEuFsj3432464; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:56:15 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by poincare.swapping.umh.ac.be with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GSEIk-00062C-FH; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:52:50 +0200 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:52:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20060926.165250.28504134.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Regarding SMP computing From: Christophe TROESTLER In-Reply-To: References: <20060925194153.GA20467@furbychan.cocan.org> X-Face: #2fb%mPx>rRL@4ff~TVgZ"<[:,oL"`TUEGK/[8/qb58~C>jR(x4A+v/n)7BgpEtIph_neoLKJBq0JBY9:}8v|j Organization: Universite de Mons-Hainaut (http://math.umh.ac.be/an/) X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.50 on Emacs 22.0.50 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 45193ED8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; christophe:01 troestler:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 umh:01 markus:01 mottl:01 markus:01 mottl:01 ocaml-values:01 2006,:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 data:02 static:03 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, "Markus Mottl" 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 for this (with Marshal'ing) ? Just a thought, ChriS