From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE33BCAE for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:50:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5OCoVOT029651 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:50:31 +0200 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA19995 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:50:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.203]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5OCoVOd029648 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:50:31 +0200 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id n15so101393nfc for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:50:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pmSoQZhYFEMr9o1ZYQB4ERK+cdOlQsn/+a6/uFds5Oijs4GQoCHC92xXRSV0di1Bpltov6YtfpTXCeiC2IIDkN609HaWjCqJCEY4fTfpDKqhgHSYlJLm8QM23UJXCEHNHCgEU2BZp82uwv4EsHe4F2/0LMGPznJvr6GLRoe538A= Received: by 10.48.3.18 with SMTP id 18mr65694nfc; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.237.20 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3d13dcfc050624055027743339@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:50:30 +0200 From: David MENTRE To: Jean-Marie Gaillourdet Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How INRIA people envision OCaml's parallel future? Cc: jtbryant@valdosta.edu, caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <3d13dcfc050624023670d3aed2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <3d13dcfc05062300215e4be9ee@mail.gmail.com> <1119547256.4675.12.camel@starlight.valdosta.edu> <1119603126.8485.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3d13dcfc050624023670d3aed2@mail.gmail.com> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42BC0197.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42BC0197.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml's:01 caml-list:01 threading:01 moderately:01 ocaml:01 ...:98 unix:01 doligez:01 short:01 thread:02 groups:02 groups:02 modifying:02 constructs:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: [ Last email, I swear it! ;-) ] Hello, 2005/6/24, David MENTRE : > Anyway, INRIA people have already worked on those issues and had > proposals. It is just that they feel it was not worth the trouble, *at > that time*: > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3Ddoligez+parallel+GC+caml-list&hl=3Dfr= &lr=3D&selm=3Dfa.dlqoshv.1a66ho7%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=3D2 >>From private and public emails, it appears that I have fed an old troll.=20 My intent is not to start another thread about GC and threading. My intent is to know how, in a short future, I could efficiently use a moderately SMP machine by writing pure OCaml code. It could be with typed channels between unix processes, by modifying the GC, by using concurrent constructs within the language, ... I don't know so this is why I'm asking it here. Yours, d.