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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Current state of threading parallelism?

On 10/4/13 8:46 AM, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote:
> 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?

https://github.com/lucasaiu/ocaml

But I guess there are others working on this too.