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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93305BBCA for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 10:15:21 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AroCAOKkI0jUnw6Gb2dsb2JhbACCMY9VAQwFAgQHE5h5 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,459,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12025064" Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.134]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 09 May 2008 10:15:21 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JuNlA-0007xC-J5 for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Fri, 09 May 2008 09:15:20 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml sucks Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:10:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200805090139.54870.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20080509074509.GA25640@annexia.org> In-Reply-To: <20080509074509.GA25640@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805090910.12347.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: bd952d45077d432cc3b127a58edb79a7 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 parallelism:01 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 data:02 fork:05 core:09 ltd:87 lack:12 products:86 enough:14 www:84 can't:17 write:17 On Friday 09 May 2008 08:45:09 Richard Jones wrote: > > 1. Lack of Parallelism: Yes, this is already a complete show stopper. > > Why can't you just fork off enough processes to cover each core? They need to share data, e.g. write results into the same matrix or mutate the same array. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e