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 concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E27BC69 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:58:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.syd.people.net.au (smtp.syd.people.net.au [218.214.225.98]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l3MAwsB4001356 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:58:56 +0200 Received: (qmail 19195 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2007 10:59:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coltrane.mega-nerd.net) (218.214.64.136) by smtp.syd.people.net.au with SMTP; 22 Apr 2007 10:59:08 -0000 Received: from coltrane (coltrane [192.168.1.101]) by coltrane.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DE1A7B68 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:58:52 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:58:52 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Multiprocessor support in OCaml Message-Id: <20070422205852.8d520529.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.3.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 462B3FEE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 sml:01 parallelism:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 pps:01 jussieu:01 modules:02 erik:04 erik:04 thread:05 thread:05 anyway:06 long:06 Jason Ganetsky wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to this list, and new to OCaml (although, have some experience with > SML). > > Anyway, I have recently written an OCaml thread pool implementation, on top > of the Thread and Event modules. I did this for the purpose of exploiting an > SMP system I have, and was a disappointed to read today that OCaml doesn't > support multiprocessor systems. For real multi-procesor parallelism, have a look at this: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~dicosmo/ocamlp3l/ Haven't tried it myself, but its on my todo list. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "life is too long to be an expert at harmful things, including such evilness as C++ and perl." -- Erik Naggum