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=0.3 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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47AD7BBAF for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:58:44 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvUBALcJu0rUnwdkkWdsb2JhbACCIZhgAQEBAQcNCgcTBLsyhBsF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,445,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="34909214" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.100]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 24 Sep 2009 14:58:43 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvgFAPMJu0rUnw6U/2dsb2JhbACCIdROhBsF Received: from fhw-relay07.plus.net ([212.159.14.148]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 24 Sep 2009 13:58:43 +0100 Received: from [87.114.87.187] (helo=leper.local) by fhw-relay07.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1MqnuE-0007Uh-Js for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:58:42 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:09:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200909241252.24209.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20090924123940.GA16175@usha.takhisis.invalid> In-Reply-To: <20090924123940.GA16175@usha.takhisis.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909241409.56894.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 6749a0607c909977923e6612b5a7fa9d X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 zacchiroli:01 0100,:01 afaict:01 ocaml:01 2009:98 2009:98 frog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 patches:03 debian:04 debian:04 thu:05 On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:39:40 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:52:24PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > > The next steps are to get oc4mc into the apt repositories and build > > Uhm, I'm curious: how do you plan to achieve that? Good question. I have no idea, of course. :-) > AFAICT the patch is only against 3.10.2, and in Debian we're at 3.11.1. Philippe, is it feasible to bring your patches up to date wrt OCaml? > Thus far, we have never had support for more than one version of OCaml > at a time. If it were worth we can surely consider that, but the current > uncertainty about OC4MC future doesn't seem enough to justify that. Fair enough. I think this is the single most important development OCaml has seen since its inception so I would personally drop OCaml in favor of oc4mc even if it meant reverting to 3.10.2. There is also the issue that this is x64 only... > So, the real question is: is OC4MC going to be ported to mainline OCaml > and support in the future or not? If the answer is "no", I don't see it > arriving in Debian anytime soon. Yes, that would be ideal. Pretty please, Xavier? ;-) -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e