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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F49BBAF for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:47:11 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvUBAI4xu0rUnwdkkWdsb2JhbACCIZheAQEBAQcNCgcTBLwchBsF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,446,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="33453473" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.100]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 24 Sep 2009 17:47:10 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvgFAMsxu0rUnw6R/2dsb2JhbACCIdU7hBsF Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net ([212.159.14.145]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 24 Sep 2009 16:47:10 +0100 Received: from [87.114.87.187] (helo=leper.local) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1MqqXG-0004iv-4P for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:47:10 +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 16:58:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200909241252.24209.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20090924121124.GA11289@yeeloong> In-Reply-To: <20090924121124.GA11289@yeeloong> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909241658.24579.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 3fcea92c44d21ed2aa949cd91e714333 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 parallelism:01 vastly:01 parallelism:01 2009:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 programming:03 programming:03 context:06 memory:09 ltd:87 machines:12 On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:11:24 rixed@happyleptic.org wrote: > > Until now, OCaml sucked at parallelism. (...) OCaml programmers > > can write OCaml programs that use multicore machines efficiently > > for the first time. > > Subtle and strongly argumented, as expected. I forgot to mention that multithreaded programming is vastly easier than multi-process programming in the context of parallelism because you get automatic memory management and O(1) communication. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e