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 concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9106DBC0A for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:09:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from yquem.inria.fr (yquem.inria.fr [128.93.8.37]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l5EA967G016998; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:09:06 +0200 Received: by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix, from userid 18041) id B82BBBC0A; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:09:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:09:06 +0200 To: Richard Jones Cc: Caml List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] We should all be forking Message-ID: <20070614100906.GB5311@yquem.inria.fr> References: <200706051913.13481.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20070607120419.GA20497@furbychan.cocan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070607120419.GA20497@furbychan.cocan.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: luc.maranget@inria.fr (Luc Maranget) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 467113C2.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; maranget:01 maranget:01 jocaml:01 jocaml:01 speedups:01 icfp:01 luc:01 luc:01 caml-list:01 programming:03 concurrent:03 distributed:05 inria:06 inria:06 examples:07 > > How close are we to real-time raytracing then? Given that 4 & even 8 > core machines may become commonplace soon. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones > Red Hat For your information there is now a more realistic ray tracer in JoCaml. Speedups can be impressive, but no real-time yet, even on a 2x11x2Ghz grid. The JoCaml ray tracer is a distributed/concurrent version of the Camls'R Us entry at ICFP 2000 programming contest. -- Luc Maranget