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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Efficient OCaml multicore -- roadmap?

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 03:57:55PM +0100, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> Generally, I'd say there is right now no perfect solution to the
> problem. As language developer, you have to foresee future hardware to
> some degree. When more and more cores are added, the characteristics of
> the hardware will gradually shift from SMP to NUMA, and the more it
> does, message passing techniques will become more attractive.

Up at the high end systems we test for RHEL, it's *all* very NUMA, has
been for quite some time.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat