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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C07BBAF for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:29:48 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4AAK0/L0vUnwckkGdsb2JhbACCGZk1AQEBAQkJDAcTBLsAhC4E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,432,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="52609005" Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.36]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 21 Dec 2009 18:29:19 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtsEAPk+L0vUnw4R/2dsb2JhbACCGdRqhC4E Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net ([212.159.14.17]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 21 Dec 2009 17:29:18 +0000 Received: from [87.114.35.173] (helo=leper.local) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1NMm4M-00033A-En for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:29:18 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: multicore wish Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:43:23 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <4B2D2BC1.6020204@msu.edu> <874onko3mp.fsf_-_@frosties.localdomain> <20091221171936.75d1186b@pbmiha.malagasy.com> In-Reply-To: <20091221171936.75d1186b@pbmiha.malagasy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200912211843.23741.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 782f888617ed20051cdbfe523ff5e031 X-Spam: no; 0.00; 2009:98 frog:98 beginners:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 useless:07 uses:07 ltd:87 decent:12 beginner:12 but:14 www:84 use:16 monday:20 foundation:21 On Monday 21 December 2009 14:19:36 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Ok, so for the beginner I am (must I ask on the beginners ML?): is > multicore support just useless or not? I have found a great many uses for multicores but you need a decent foundation to make effective use of it. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e