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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:04:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures
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> On Friday 25 September 2009 08:32:26 Hugo Ferreira wrote:
>> Put it another way; if parallel/concurrent programming could be
>> easily used with a minimum of effort then I believe "most people"
>> would use it simply because it is available.
>
> Once your run-time supports it, you just need a library that farms tasks
> out
> to threads via queues and a lot of parallelism really is easy.

I wonder if Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch
is of relevance here.  But then, it'll be OS-specific.