Re: [Caml-list] OCaml release roadmap

[Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>]

On 05/06/2015 07:24 PM, Damien Doligez wrote:
> Dear OCaml users,
>
> We are now preparing release 4.02.2, mostly a bug-fix release with a
> few new features. We are planning to release it in the first week of
> June (about 1 month from now). If you want to try a preview, get it:
>    - from github: < https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/tree/4.02 > (don't
> forget to switch to branch 4.02 after cloning)
>    - through OPAM: opam switch 4.02.0+trunk (watch out for the misnomer)
> If you find bugs, please report them as quickly as possible.
>
> As for the next major release, it will include a number of new
> features (including, if all goes well, support for multicore). It will
> be released some time around the end of this year.

Who added the support for multicore?

Will it have an impact on the performance of sequential programs (i.e. 
which don't use multicore)?

Does it mean we will be able to write parallel code that scales better
than what we currently can get with parmap?
I.e. we could see a speedup even if the task is very fine grain.

Will we have to rewrite Parmap ? ;)

> -- Damien Doligez for the OCaml development team
>

-- 
Regards,
Francois.