From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 E47D9BBAF for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:19:59 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkwCANu6EkvUnwdkkGdsb2JhbACCHZluAQEBAQcLDAcTBLcrhDEE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,309,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="37671895" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.100]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 30 Nov 2009 03:19:59 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmwHANu6EktUXeby/2dsb2JhbACCHdFZhDEE Received: from relay01.plus.net ([84.93.230.242]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 30 Nov 2009 02:19:59 +0000 Received: from [87.112.73.155] (helo=leper.local) by relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1NEvrq-0007M0-Ud for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:19:59 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: OCaml List Subject: Parallel programming in HLVM Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:33:24 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200911300333.24618.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: db9aa187e3d1a9528bb4a6a159c2ae9d X-Spam: no; 0.00; frog:98 threads:01 inefficient:02 seems:03 programming:03 correctly:04 parallel:05 parallel:05 optimize:12 ltd:87 version:13 should:13 but:14 www:84 using:15 I managed to find the time to do a little more work on my HLVM project this week and created a first working parallel version with threads that run simultaneously using a stop-the-world GC. The current implementation is extremely inefficient but it seems to work correctly and should be easy to optimize. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e