From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA08899; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:29:05 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA09657 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:29:04 +0100 (MET) 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 SAA25275 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:13:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from ajax.cs.uga.edu (ajax.cs.uga.edu [128.192.251.3]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1DHDIP29448 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:13:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from uga.edu.cs.uga.edu (ajax [128.192.251.3]) by ajax.cs.uga.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14033 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:13:16 -0500 (EST) To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: feature priorities (was Re: [Caml-list] Request: matrix_init function in Array) From: Ed L Cashin Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:13:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030213083000.02fedc40@localhost> (Chris Hecker's message of "Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:50:25 -0800") Message-ID: <87of5gp0ia.fsf_-_@uga.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030210183551.03118b08@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030213083000.02fedc40@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Chris Hecker writes: ... > I can name probably 20 equivalently sized > tasks that would help way more people who are trying to use caml and > answer way more future questions, and that only the core team can do. As a new ocaml user, the two biggest missing features appear to be 1) a.) no multi-threading support where threads would migrate between processors b.) ... which has underlying it: no MT-safe (and efficient) garbage collector 2) ocamlopt-generated programs cannot dynamically load ocamlopt-generated code. Please correct me if I'm wrong about these two. I don't know whether people are already working on this or even if anyone cares about these features. I gave a presentation on ocaml to a linux user group recently, and these two are the only shortcomings I could identify. Everything else was radient praise. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners