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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A515BBAF for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:26:52 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: An4BAD+Bu0rUGyoFkWdsb2JhbACbAAEBAQEJCwoHEwO7V4IvgW0F X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,447,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="47224536" Received: from smtp5-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.5]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 24 Sep 2009 23:26:20 +0200 Received: from smtp5-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp5-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E40D48067 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:26:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from yeeloong (happyleptic.org [82.67.194.89]) by smtp5-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 104F3D480E9 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:26:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by yeeloong (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:26:03 +0200 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:26:03 +0200 From: rixed@happyleptic.org To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures Message-ID: <20090924212603.GA13050@yeeloong> References: <200909241409.56894.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20090924164933.GA5637@annexia.org> <200909242209.50565.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909242209.50565.jon@ffconsultancy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 kid:98 threads:01 caml-list:01 python:03 programming:03 concurrency:04 parallel:05 efficient:07 might:12 reasonable:12 yet:12 happens:13 dotnet:13 > Visual Basic has been a *lot* faster than OCaml for several years now, not > (...) Even Python (...) Java and C#. They are far more popular than OCaml for many > reasons but parallel threads to make efficient multicore programming easy is > a big one. In general you sounds like a reasonable and knowledgeable person, yet in some messages you seam to completely lose contact with reality. Either you have a small kid at home who steals your identity when you are away, or, considering that it always happens when the toppic gets close to concurrency or the dotnet platform, you might be suffering in some way.