From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:52:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909241252.24209.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60112.70.26.45.183.1253786457.squirrel@pegasus.carleton.ca>
On Thursday 24 September 2009 11:00:57 kcheung@math.carleton.ca wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 September 2009 01:01:58 you wrote:
> >
> > No problem. I'll be happy to get anything working!
> >
> > Following your advice, it seems to work perfectly now:
>
> I'm not too familiar with concurrency in ocaml.
> How does OC4MC compare with JoCaml?
JoCaml is all about concurrency: minimizing latency. Oc4mc is all about
parallelism: maximizing throughput.
Until now, OCaml sucked at parallelism. You can sometimes obtain some
parallelism by forking threads but it is asymptotically slower than using
shared memory. Consequently, oc4mc is a hugely-important development in the
OCaml world because it means that OCaml programmers can write OCaml programs
that use multicore machines efficiently for the first time.
The next steps are to get oc4mc into the apt repositories and build some
libraries that make parallelism easier (like Microsoft's Task Parallel
Library).
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 21:30 Philippe Wang
2009-09-23 10:53 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-09-23 12:21 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-23 13:00 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-23 14:26 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 0:21 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-23 23:15 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 0:05 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 0:01 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 1:47 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 9:49 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-24 10:00 ` rixed
2009-09-24 10:40 ` Florian Hars
2009-09-24 11:45 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 10:00 ` kcheung
2009-09-24 11:52 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2009-09-24 11:55 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-24 12:11 ` rixed
2009-09-24 15:58 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 12:39 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-24 13:09 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 16:49 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-24 16:56 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 17:36 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-24 19:39 ` rixed
2009-09-24 21:09 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 21:26 ` rixed
2009-09-25 4:07 ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-09-25 7:32 ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-09-25 10:17 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-25 13:04 ` kcheung
2009-09-25 21:39 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-09-25 9:33 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-25 21:39 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-26 16:55 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-25 8:08 ` Stéphane Glondu
2009-09-25 15:05 ` Xavier Leroy
2009-09-25 23:26 ` Benjamin Canou
2009-09-26 0:45 ` kcheung
2009-09-26 1:53 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-26 13:51 ` kcheung
2009-09-26 14:46 ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-10 4:01 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 13:40 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-24 14:22 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 14:49 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-24 13:55 ` Mike Lin
2009-09-24 14:52 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-24 15:36 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 15:50 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 12:14 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 13:11 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 14:51 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 14:57 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 14:11 ` Dario Teixeira
2009-09-24 14:38 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 15:20 ` Dario Teixeira
2009-09-24 23:28 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 23:25 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-25 14:11 ` Philippe Wang
2009-11-08 18:12 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 18:24 ` David Teller
[not found] <20090924154716.BCD0ABC5A@yquem.inria.fr>
2009-09-24 16:02 ` Pascal Cuoq
2009-09-24 16:30 ` Philippe Wang
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