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From: Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] muti-core programming
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:04:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E00352.1060403@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56DFF9A3.4040805@gmail.com>

On 03/09/2016 11:23 AM, Mohamed Iguernlala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Functory may be suitable as well
> (http://opam.ocaml.org/packages/functory/functory.0.5/)

and maybe lwt-parallel by Ivan Gotovchits or
procord by Cryptosense; all available libraries in opam.

> --
> Mohamed Iguernlala.
> Senior R&D Engineer, OCamlPro SAS
> Research Associate, VALS team, LRI
>
> Le 09/03/2016 11:07, Francois Berenger a écrit :
>> On 03/09/2016 10:50 AM, 刘坚 wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>           I’m recently writing a formal verification tool in OCaml, and
>>> it works really well, but I’m considering writing a concurrent version.
>>> However, until now, there seems to be no way to write programs that take
>>> advantage of multi-cores.
>>
>> To accelerate something, probably you want paralellism, not concurrency.
>>
>> I recomend parmap, but there are some other libraries out there
>> too for that purpose (in opam: forkwork and probably others I don't
>> know).
>>
>> But be careful that too fine granularity calculations don't
>> parallelize well.
>> For example, if you are analyzing source code, maybe analyzing
>> distinct files in parallel would be a coarse enough granularity.
>>
>> > So, I’m wondering when will OCaml support
>>> multi-core programming? Or else, do I have other choices by using some
>>> external extensions of OCaml instead of the standard library?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jian
>>
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Francois.
"When in doubt, use more types"

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-09 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-09  9:50 刘坚
2016-03-09 10:07 ` Francois Berenger
2016-03-09 10:23   ` Mohamed Iguernlala
2016-03-09 11:04     ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2016-03-09 21:58       ` Yaron Minsky

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