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=0.2 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 9CCDFBC37 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:09:52 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoADAA9xv0rUnwdkkWdsb2JhbACCH5hjAQEBAQkLCgcTBLZphB4F X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,461,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="35102156" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.100]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 27 Sep 2009 23:09:52 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AscIAIZxv0rUnw4T/2dsb2JhbACCH9AKhB4F Received: from pih-relay06.plus.net ([212.159.14.19]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2009 22:09:51 +0100 Received: from [87.114.87.187] (helo=leper.local) by pih-relay06.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Ms10B-0003PP-F0 for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:09:51 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] JIT & HLVM, LLVM Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:10:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <4E6F3027-5745-462D-AF10-30C868285D28@refined-audiometrics.com> <4ABFB7DE.2050108@gmail.com> <60282.70.26.46.231.1254079393.squirrel@pegasus.carleton.ca> In-Reply-To: <60282.70.26.46.231.1254079393.squirrel@pegasus.carleton.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909272210.19130.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 9b497bc6b118f674edcb9fc756714170 X-Spam: no; 0.00; 2009:98 carleton:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 dispatch:03 alternatives:08 useful:09 technically:09 incidentally:10 ltd:87 nix:13 but:14 does:14 www:84 On Sunday 27 September 2009 20:23:13 kcheung@math.carleton.ca wrote: > If Grand Central Dispatch makes its way > into *nix... Incidentally, what exactly (technically) is Grand Central and how does it relate to existing alternatives and the state-of-the-art? I Googled it but failed to find anything useful... -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e