From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99751BB83 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:26:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k3NCQe31012921 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:26:41 +0200 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA04422 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:26:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp12.wanadoo.fr (smtp12.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.20]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k3NCQdVb008733 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:26:39 +0200 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1201.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 33C381C00092 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:26:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from morgana (ARennes-257-1-82-247.w86-199.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.199.37.247]) by mwinf1201.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 07CF81C00090; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:26:39 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20060423122639321.07CF81C00090@mwinf1201.wanadoo.fr Received: from david by morgana with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FXdgV-0001Lx-H6; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:27:27 +0200 To: Erik de Castro Lopo Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What's "advantage of gcc-specific features"? References: <87wtdivt4z.fsf@linux-france.org> <200604221614.k3MGE7O3007983@psi-phi.mit.edu> <20060423091506.2ceaf9c5.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> From: David MENTRE Organization: none Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:27:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20060423091506.2ceaf9c5.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> (Erik de Castro Lopo's message of "Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:15:06 +1000") Message-ID: <87d5f8sci8.fsf@linux-france.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 444B7280.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 444B727F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; gcc-specific:01 ocaml:01 rennes:01 ocaml:01 threads:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 writes:01 maintainers:01 aka:04 erik:04 inria:06 inria:06 processor:06 quite:06 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > John Carr wrote: > >> The OCaml maintainers do not have a 64 bit SPARC system to test >> on and can not take over my port. I'm quite surprised. INRIA had tons of SPARC systems in the past (this is at least true at INRIA Rennes). Was it impossible for the OCaml team to get some of these systems when they were changed for PCs? > People who own 64 bit SPARC systems and want to see the SPARC > port continued should contact SUN and suggest that SUN supply > a machine for the Ocaml developers. That's said, a port of OCaml (and its GC ;-) on a 8 core, 4 threads per core, latest Niagara processor (aka OpenSparc T1[1]) could be an interesting task. :-) Best wishes, d. Footnotes: [1] http://opensparc-t1.sunsource.net/index.html -- pub 1024D/A3AD7A2A 2004-10-03 David MENTRE 5996 CC46 4612 9CA4 3562 D7AC 6C67 9E96 A3AD 7A2A