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From: Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger.maillist@draxit.de>
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Subject: [Caml-list] Current state of threading parallelism?

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