From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6713FBBC1 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:27:04 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAG5dDEjAXQIn/2dsb2JhbACqcA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,690,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="11205862" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Apr 2008 18:27:04 +0200 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m3LGQt1Z007102 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:27:03 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnIBACRdDEjCbRgab2dsb2JhbACRWAEMBQIFBxiYXg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,690,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="25278758" Received: from smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.26]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Apr 2008 18:26:55 +0200 Received: from [172.19.3.2] (a82-93-212-155.adsl.xs4all.nl [82.93.212.155]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3LGQsaC034886 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:26:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from elliott@elliottoti.com) Message-ID: <480CC04E.7090900@elliottoti.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:26:54 +0200 From: Elliott Oti User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The closing gap (warning: long, inflammatory rant) References: <20080421131151.GA16777@annexia.org> In-Reply-To: <20080421131151.GA16777@annexia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 480CC04F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 wrote:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 module:03 fork:05 shared:06 long:06 linux:07 solaris:08 memory:09 writing:12 unusable:13 but:14 done:14 Richard Jones wrote: > OCaml supports fork, event channels & shared memory right now > (and has done for years) so there is no penalty to writing it > properly. > Not on Win32. I use Solaris at work and Linux at home, but Win32 is a big platform - the biggest there is right now - and the Unix module process- and signal-related implementations there are unusable.