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From: Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger.maillist@draxit.de>
To: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] Current state of threading parallelism?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 01:46:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131004014649.2b4e7750@narfi.yggdrasil.draxit.de> (raw)

Hi,

I'm a bit out of the loop of the current state of OCaml support for
parallelism. My most recent knowledge on the topic, which dates back
about 3 years, would be, that due to the global garbage collector OCaml
did support only time sharing multithreaded concurrency limited to a
single processing core, i.e. no parallelism at all.

Have there been significant changes in that regard lately? I did notice
that there are now new (inofficial) ocamlopt backends based on LLVM.
Are there any new, as exciting developments regarding the runtime system
as well?


Regards

Wolfgang

             reply	other threads:[~2013-10-03 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-03 23:46 Wolfgang Draxinger [this message]
2013-10-03 23:50 ` Francois Berenger
2013-10-04 15:44 ` Francis Dupont
2013-10-05  0:25   ` Wolfgang Draxinger
2013-10-05  1:25     ` Philippe Wang
2013-10-05  3:57       ` Francois Berenger
2013-10-05 23:28     ` Jon Harrop

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