From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Parallelism with threads
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:23:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801082023.47635.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4783D640.7080800@janestcapital.com>
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 20:00:00 Brian Hurt wrote:
> Actually, something that might be nice to see, now that the flat page
> table has been replaced with a heap that can handle disjoint heap
> spaces, is to allow multiple different Ocaml runtimes to be running in
> seperate threads in the same process.
> The heaps wouldn't be able to see each other, but they'd be able to
> communicate via light weight (and strongly typed) message passing, and
> you wouldn't have to dink around with sockets, pipes, MPI, or simiar
> "heavy weight" solutions, so it'd be simpler, and possibly faster. This
> is not unlike the Erlang model, in fact.
This is exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in!
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-08 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-08 14:56 Jon Harrop
2008-01-08 19:31 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Andor
2008-01-08 20:00 ` Brian Hurt
2008-01-08 20:19 ` David MENTRE
2008-01-08 20:23 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-01-08 20:43 ` Brian Hurt
2008-01-08 20:55 ` Jonathan Bryant
2008-01-08 23:47 ` Benedikt Grundmann
2008-01-09 14:46 ` Daniel Andor
2008-01-09 16:04 ` Richard Jones
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