From: "Fischbacher T." <T.Fischbacher@soton.ac.uk>
To: Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@gulfsat.mg>,
"caml-list@yquem.inria.fr" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>,
"ocsigen@sympa.mancoosi.univ-paris-diderot.fr"
<ocsigen@sympa.mancoosi.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Re: multicore wish
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:15:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <263BA63009B97B4CB8A65660DAD3D7D0651B38EAC6@UOS-CL-EX7-L2.soton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091221171936.75d1186b@pbmiha.malagasy.com>
Mihamina,
> Ok, so for the beginner I am (must I ask on the beginners ML?): is
> multicore support just useless or not?
That *entirely* depends on what you want to do. If, for example, you
have to do a large calculation that is limited by memory and not by CPU,
or, if you have an application that is trivially parallelized anyway,
multicore support won't make much of a difference. There are
(many) other applications, however, where it does matter quite a lot.
Actually, the biggest effect of multicore architectures I see is to shift
the emphasis from raw CPU power to memory bandwidth.
--
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-21 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-19 19:38 OCaml is broken Jeff Shaw
2009-12-20 4:43 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2009-12-20 12:21 ` [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 10.1/8.0] " Erik Rigtorp
2009-12-20 13:22 ` Martin Jambon
2009-12-20 13:47 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-12-20 16:01 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-12-21 22:50 ` [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 10.1/8.0] Re: [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 10.1/8.0] " Erik Rigtorp
2009-12-22 12:04 ` Erik Rigtorp
2009-12-22 12:27 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2009-12-22 13:27 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-12-23 11:25 ` Erik Rigtorp
2009-12-29 12:07 ` [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 10.1/8.0] Re: [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 10.1/8.0] " Richard Jones
2009-12-20 14:27 ` Dario Teixeira
2009-12-20 21:14 ` Jon Harrop
2009-12-21 1:08 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-12-21 4:30 ` Jon Harrop
2009-12-21 3:58 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-12-21 5:32 ` Markus Mottl
2009-12-21 13:29 ` Jon Harrop
2009-12-26 17:08 ` orbitz
2009-12-20 19:38 ` [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 10.1/8.0] " Jon Harrop
2009-12-21 12:26 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2009-12-21 14:19 ` general question, was " Keyan
2009-12-21 14:40 ` [Caml-list] " rixed
2009-12-21 14:42 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-12-21 15:25 ` Eray Ozkural
2009-12-21 14:50 ` Philip
2009-12-21 15:01 ` Keyan
2009-12-21 15:13 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-12-21 15:27 ` Dario Teixeira
2009-12-21 15:46 ` Jacques Carette
2009-12-21 18:50 ` Jon Harrop
2009-12-21 18:48 ` Jon Harrop
2010-01-03 10:49 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-01-03 20:06 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2009-12-21 13:07 ` [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 10.1/8.0] Re: [Caml-list] " Damien Doligez
2009-12-21 13:31 ` multicore wish [Was: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml is broken] Goswin von Brederlow
2009-12-21 14:19 ` multicore wish Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2009-12-21 16:15 ` Fischbacher T. [this message]
2009-12-21 17:42 ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2009-12-21 18:43 ` Jon Harrop
2009-12-21 19:53 ` multicore wish [Was: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml is broken] Jon Harrop
2009-12-22 13:09 ` multicore wish Goswin von Brederlow
2009-12-22 19:12 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2009-12-22 18:02 ` Edgar Friendly
2009-12-22 19:20 ` Jon Harrop
2009-12-24 12:58 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-12-24 16:51 ` Jon Harrop
2009-12-24 13:19 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-12-24 17:06 ` Jon Harrop
2009-12-27 12:45 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-12-27 16:37 ` Jon Harrop
2009-12-28 12:28 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-12-28 15:07 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2009-12-28 18:05 ` Xavier Leroy
2009-12-29 16:44 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-12-20 11:56 ` [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 10.1/8.0] [Caml-list] Re: OCaml is broken Erik Rigtorp
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